When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.
CHINUA ACHEBEBecome familiar with your home, but know also about your neighbors. The young man who never went anywhere thinks his mother is the greatest cook.
More Chinua Achebe Quotes
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The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.
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Wisdom is like a goatskin bag; every man carries his own.
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When mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth
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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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When a coward sees a man he can beat he becomes hungry for a fight.
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People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.
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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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People go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they fail to see what is there in front of them.
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If one finger brings oil it soils the others.
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An angry man is always a stupid man.
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A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.
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Nobody can teach me who I am. You can describe parts of me, but who I am – and what I need – is something I have to find out myself.
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As a rule I don’t like suffering to no purpose. Suffering should be creative, should give birth to something good and lovely.
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Nigeria is what it is because its leaders are not what they should be.
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There is no story that is not true.
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