# Quote — Chinua Achebe, A Man of the People

> He looked as bright as a new shilling in his immaculate white robes.

- Author: [Chinua Achebe](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chinua-achebe.md)
- Book: [A Man of the People](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chinua-achebe/a-man-of-the-people.md)
- Page: 36
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Chinua_Achebe#Man_of_the_People_(1966)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/chinua-achebe/a-man-of-the-people/he-looked-as-bright

## More from this book

> We had all accepted things from white skins that none of us would have brooked from our own people.

p. 41 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chinua-achebe/a-man-of-the-people/we-had-all.md)

> What mattered was that a man had treated me as no man had a right to treat another—not even if he was master and the other slave; and my manhood requires that I made him pay for his insult in full measure.

p. 73 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chinua-achebe/a-man-of-the-people/what-mattered-was.md)

> A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chinua-achebe/a-man-of-the-people/a-man-of-worth.md)