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Quotes from Beware Soul Brother and Other Poems — Chinua Achebe

1930–2013 Nigeria

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By immediately identifying his people as “men of soul” .

Beware Soul Brother and Other Poems (1972)

He calls the ground where men return in death a place of “safety” and “strength” .

Beware Soul Brother and Other Poems (1972)

Lying in wait for the people’s land and resources.

Beware Soul Brother and Other Poems (1972)

He warns them not to become “disinherited”.

Beware Soul Brother and Other Poems (1972)

Measure out
[their] joys and agonies
too, our long, long passion week
in paces of the dance”

Beware Soul Brother and Other Poems (1972)

A dead end nor total loss.

Beware Soul Brother and Other Poems (1972)

Praise bounteous providence if you will that grants even an ogre a tiny glow-worm tenderness encapsulated in icy caverns of a cruel heart or else despair for in the very germ of that kindred love is lodged the perpetuity of evil.

Beware Soul Brother and Other Poems (1972)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Chinua Achebe (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.