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A goat does not eat into a hen’s stomach no matter how friendly the two may be.

Chinua Achebe

I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.
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Growth Life Old People Thinking
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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Art Creation Effort Himself Reality
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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Earth Existence Ideal Myself Place
If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all.
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Hear Understand Yourself
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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Description Finding Myself Need Teaching
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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Angry Collapse Quit Reason Therapy Trouble
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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Creativity Love Purpose Rule Suffering
When a mad man walks naked, it is his kinsmen who feel shame, not himself.
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Feeling Himself Madness Man Naked Shame
It is praiseworthy to be brave and fearless, but sometimes it is better to be a coward. We often stand in the compound of a coward to point at the ruins where a brave man used to live.
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Better Brave Coward Live Praise Worth
A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.
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Himself Man Trouble
Wisdom is like a goatskin bag; every man carries his own.
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Carry Himself Man Wisdom
Nobody can teach me who I am.
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Myself Philosophy Teaching
When brothers fight to death a stranger inherit their father’s estate.
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Brother Death Fight Profit Stranger
I prefer to go on trying all kinds of things, not to be told, This is the way it is done.
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Adventure Kindness Myself Way
Each of my books is different. Deliberately. I wanted to create my society, my people, in their fullness.
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Book Creation Different Myself People
Nigeria is what it is because its leaders are not what they should be.
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Government Leadership Politics

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