Now one of the changes that must come to Africa is the idea of limited rule, I mean in term of how long one leader can stay in power. The era of president for life is not gone yet but it is on its way out and that is one of the problems with Mugabe and others.
CHINUA ACHEBEIf you don’t like someone’s story, write your own. If you don’t like what somebody says, say what it is you don’t like.
More Chinua Achebe Quotes
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I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.
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The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.
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There is that great proverb – that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.
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When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground.
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Procrastination is a lazy man’s apology.
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When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don’t just turn it off one day.
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When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands.
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We do not seek to hurt any man, but if any man seeks to hurt us may he break his neck.
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The singer should sing well even if it is merely to himself, rather than dance badly for the whole world.
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It has always been quite apparent to me that no important story can fail to tell us something of value to us.
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A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.
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Each of my books is different. Deliberately. I wanted to create my society, my people, in their fullness.
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A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.
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It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is the mark on the face that sets one people apart from their neighbors.
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Wisdom is like a goatskin bag; every man carries his own.
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