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.
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.
CHINUA ACHEBEA disease that has never been seen before cannot be cured with every-day herbs.
CHINUA ACHEBEIn 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.
CHINUA ACHEBENobody can teach me who I am.
CHINUA ACHEBEYou do not know me,’ said Tortoise. ‘I am a changed man. I have learned that a man who makes trouble for others makes trouble for himself.
CHINUA ACHEBEThere is that great proverb – that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.
CHINUA ACHEBEThe price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use.
CHINUA ACHEBEWhenever you see a toad jumping in broad daylight, then know that something is after its life.
CHINUA ACHEBEThe man that brings ant-infested faggots into his hut should not grumble when lizards begin to pay him a visit.
CHINUA ACHEBEOne 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?
CHINUA ACHEBEIt is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is the mark on the face that sets one people apart from their neighbors.
CHINUA ACHEBEA man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.
CHINUA ACHEBEWhen mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth
CHINUA ACHEBEWhen brothers fight to death a stranger inherit their father’s estate.
CHINUA ACHEBEProcrastination is a lazy man’s apology.
CHINUA ACHEBEIf a child washed his hands, he could eat with kings.
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