Every generation must recognize and embrace the task it is peculiarly designed by history and by providence to perform.
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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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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If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all.
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It 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.
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Wisdom is like a goatskin bag; every man carries his own.
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A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.
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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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There is that great proverb – that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.
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Only the story can continue beyond the war and the warrior. The story outlives the sound of the war drum… The story is our escort. Without it we are blind… It is the thing that sets us apart from cattle.
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Art is man’s constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.
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When a mad man walks naked, it is his kinsmen who feel shame, not himself.
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An artist in my view is always afraid of extremists; he is always afraid of those who claim to have found the ultimate solution to any question.
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What a man does not know is greater than he.
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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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There is no story that is not true.
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We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own.
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