Women and music should not be dated.
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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No matter how prosperous a man was, if he was unable to rule his women and his children (and especially his women) he was not really a man.
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When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.
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When mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth
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Charity is the opium of the privileged.
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If I hold her hand she says, ‘Don’t touch!’ If I hold her foot she says ‘Don’t touch!’ But when I hold her waist-beads she pretends not to know.
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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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The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.
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One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.
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Most writers who are beginners, if they are honest with themselves, will admit that they are praying for a readership as they begin to write. But it should be the quality of the craft, not the audience, that should be the greatest motivating factor.
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A disease that has never been seen before cannot be cured with every-day herbs.
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Wisdom is like a goatskin bag; every man carries his own.
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It is the storyteller who makes us what we are, who creates history. The storyteller creates the memory that the survivors must have – otherwise their surviving would have no meaning.
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The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.
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The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don’t always know what you get at the other end. If you are not careful you could replace a bad government with one much worse!
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The lizard that jumped from a high Iroko tree to the ground said he would praise himself if no-one else did.
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