It is the storyteller who makes us what we are, who creates history. The storyteller creates the memory that the survivors must have – otherwise their surviving would have no meaning.
CHINUA ACHEBEThe language of young men is pull down and destroy; but an old man speaks of conciliation.
More Chinua Achebe Quotes
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Whatever music you beat on your drum there is somebody who can dance to it.
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What a man does not know is greater than he.
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While we do our good works let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.
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In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasn’t perhaps completely whole, that something was left out.
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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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Nobody can teach me who I am.
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No man however great is greater than his people.
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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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The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.
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An angry man is always a stupid man.
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The world is large,” said Okonkwo. “I have even heard that in some tribes a man’s children belong to his wife and her family.” “That cannot be,” said Machi. “You might as well say that the woman lies on top of the man when they are making the babies.
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And theories are no more than fictions which help us to make sense of experience and which are subject to disconfirmation when their explanations are no longer adequate.
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If one finger brings oil it soils the others.
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I think not just Nigeria but I think the whole of Africa has to turn back to the rural areas and that’s where the majority of the citizens are and that’s where the engine of of development has to be found.
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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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