If a child washed his hands, he could eat with kings.
CHINUA ACHEBEPeople create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.
More Chinua Achebe Quotes
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Charity is the opium of the privileged.
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We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own.
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A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.
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The impatient idealist says: ‘Give me a place to stand and I shall move the earth.’ But such a place does not exist. We all have to stand on the earth itself and go with her at her pace.
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We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own. The Igbo, always practical, put it concretely in their proverb Onye ji onye n’ani ji onwe ya: ‘He who will hold another down in the mud must stay in the mud to keep him down.’
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Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story even if on the surface it’s far removed from your situation.
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My weapon is literature.
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One reason why I am quite angry with what is happening in Nigeria today is that everything has collapsed. If I decide to go back now, there will be so many problems – where will I find the physical therapy and other things that I now require?
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A coward may cover the ground with his words but when the time comes to fight he runs away.
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There is a moral obligation, I think, not to ally oneself with power against the powerless.
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A disease that has never been seen before cannot be cured with every-day herbs.
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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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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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A goat does not eat into a hen’s stomach no matter how friendly the two may be.
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Literature, whether handed down by word or mouth or in print, gives us a second handle on reality.
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