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?
CHINUA ACHEBEOne of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.
More Chinua Achebe Quotes
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Become familiar with your home, but know also about your neighbors. The young man who never went anywhere thinks his mother is the greatest cook.
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It has always been quite apparent to me that no important story can fail to tell us something of value to us.
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When mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth
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My weapon is literature.
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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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Let the kite perch and let the eagle perch too – If one says no to the other, let his wing break.
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No matter how prosperous a man was, if he was unable to rule his women and his children (and especially his women) he was not really a man.
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Women and music should not be dated.
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If you don’t like someone’s story, write your own. If you don’t like what somebody says, say what it is you don’t like.
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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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The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don’t always know what you get at the other end. If you are not careful you could replace a bad government with one much worse!
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Most writers who are beginners, if they are honest with themselves, will admit that they are praying for a readership as they begin to write. But it should be the quality of the craft, not the audience, that should be the greatest motivating factor.
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When a coward sees a man he can beat he becomes hungry for a fight.
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What a man does not know is greater than he.
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We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own. The Igbo, always practical, put it concretely in their proverb Onye ji onye n’ani ji onwe ya: ‘He who will hold another down in the mud must stay in the mud to keep him down.’
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