A child cannot pay for its mother’s milk.
CHINUA ACHEBEStorytellers 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.
More Chinua Achebe Quotes
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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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The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use.
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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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We shall all live. We pray for life, children, a good harvest and happiness. You will have what is good for you and I will have what is good for me. Let the kite perch and let the egret perch too. If one says no to the other, let his wing break.
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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 damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.
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Every generation must recognize and embrace the task it is peculiarly designed by history and by providence to perform.
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My weapon is literature.
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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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Wisdom is like a goatskin bag; every man carries his own.
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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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A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.
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Women and music should not be dated.
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A man who does not lick his lips, can he blame the harmattan for drying them?
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A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.
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