I prefer to go on trying all kinds of things, not to be told, This is the way it is done.
CHINUA ACHEBEMy weapon is literature.
More Chinua Achebe Quotes
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We do not seek to hurt any man, but if any man seeks to hurt us may he break his neck.
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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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What a man does not know is greater than he.
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Whatever music you beat on your drum there is somebody who can dance to it.
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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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The man that brings ant-infested faggots into his hut should not grumble when lizards begin to pay him a visit.
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There is no story that is not true.
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When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.
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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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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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The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.
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People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that’s the time to do something about it, not when it’s around your neck.
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If one finger brings oil it soils the others.
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If a child washed his hands, he could eat with kings.
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A debt may get mouldy, but it never decays.
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