My son even if you want to fall, at least fall where your bones can be gathered.
CHINUA ACHEBEProcrastination is a lazy man’s apology.
More Chinua Achebe Quotes
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The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.
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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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No man however great is greater than his people.
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When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don’t just turn it off one day.
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A man who pays respect to the great paves the way for his own greatness
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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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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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If one finger brings oil it soils the others.
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A disease that has never been seen before cannot be cured with every-day herbs.
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When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands.
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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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A man who does not lick his lips, can he blame the harmattan for drying them?
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Whenever you see a toad jumping in broad daylight, then know that something is after its life.
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We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own.
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When mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth
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When a mad man walks naked, it is his kinsmen who feel shame, not himself.
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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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A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.
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What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens – whether people are of a different ethnicity or gender.
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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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If you don’t like someone’s story, write your own.
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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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An angry man is always a stupid man.
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When brothers fight to death a stranger inherit their father’s estate.
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If I hold her hand she says, ‘Don’t touch!’ If I hold her foot she says ‘Don’t touch!’ But when I hold her waist-beads she pretends not to know.
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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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