Badriya

“I feel that there has to be a purpose to what we do. If there was no hope at all, we should just sleep or drink and wait for death. But we don’t want to do that. And why? I think something tells us that we should struggle. We don’t really know why we should struggle, but we do, because we think it’s better than sitting down and waiting for calamity.”
― Chinua Achebe

“Writing has always been a serious business for me. I felt it was a moral obligation. A major concern of the time was the absence of the African voice. Being part of that dialogue meant not only sitting at the table but effectively telling the African story from an African perspective - in full earshot of the world.”
― Chinua Achebe, There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra

“If dreams are thwarted, then yearning must take their place
If reunion is impossible, then longing must take its place.”
― Faiz Ahmed Faiz

“Procrastination is a lazy man's apology.”
― Chinua Achebe, Anthills of the Savannah