An angry man is always a stupid man.
CHINUA ACHEBEIf you don’t like someone’s story, write your own.
More Chinua Achebe Quotes
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You 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.
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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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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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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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The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.
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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.
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No man however great is greater than his people.
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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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As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us.
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In dealing with a man who thinks you are a fool, it is good sometimes to remind him that you know what he knows but have chosen to appear foolish for the sake of peace.
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A disease that has never been seen before cannot be cured with every-day herbs.
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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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I am against people reaping where they have not sown. But we have a saying that if you want to eat a toad you should look for a fat and juicy one.
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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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When a man is at peace with his gods and ancestors, his harvest will be good or bad according to the strength of his arm.
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