The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.
CHINUA ACHEBEWhen a mad man walks naked, it is his kinsmen who feel shame, not himself.
More Chinua Achebe Quotes
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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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Do not be in a hurry to rush into the pleasures of the world like the young antelope who danced herself lame when the main dance was yet to come.
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When brothers fight to death a stranger inherit their father’s estate.
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When a man is at peace with his gods and ancestors, his harvest will be good or bad according to the strength of his arm.
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Whatever music you beat on your drum there is somebody who can dance to it.
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Procrastination is a lazy man’s apology.
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Wisdom is like a goatskin bag; every man carries his own.
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In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasn’t perhaps completely whole, that something was left out.
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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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While we do our good works let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.
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Privilege, you see, is one of the great adversaries of the imagination; it spreads a thick layer of adipose tissue over our sensitivity.
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If 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.
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Africa is to Europe as the picture is to Dorian Gray-a carrier onto whom the master unloads his physical & moral deformities.
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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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Charity is the opium of the privileged.
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