When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands.
CHINUA ACHEBEWe cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own.
More Chinua Achebe Quotes
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Wisdom is like a goatskin bag; every man carries his own.
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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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There is a moral obligation, I think, not to ally oneself with power against the powerless.
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Nobody can teach me who I am.
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When mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth
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Storytellers are a threat. They threaten all champions of control, they frighten usurpers of the right-to-freedom of the human spirit — in state, in church or mosque, in party congress, in the university or wherever.
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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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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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An angry man is always a stupid man.
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I don’t like to see mistakes on the typewriter. I like a perfect script. On the typewriter I will sometimes leave a phrase that is not right, not what I want, simply because to change it would be a bit messy.
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Nigeria is what it is because its leaders are not what they should be.
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Every generation must find its mission and fulfill it, as Fanon said – or betray it. So it is not something that you can write up on the wall, saying this is what has to be done. Every generation has to discover what it needs to do.
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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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I think not just Nigeria but I think the whole of Africa has to turn back to the rural areas and that’s where the majority of the citizens are and that’s where the engine of of development has to be found.
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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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