An angry man is always a stupid man.
CHINUA ACHEBEProcrastination is a lazy man’s apology.
More Chinua Achebe Quotes
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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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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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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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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.
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If one finger brings oil it soils the others.
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Privilege, you see, is one of the great adversaries of the imagination; it spreads a thick layer of adipose tissue over our sensitivity.
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When mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth
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A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.
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Art is man’s constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.
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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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A debt may get mouldy, but it never decays.
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Each of my books is different. Deliberately. I wanted to create my society, my people, in their fullness.
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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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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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Now one of the changes that must come to Africa is the idea of limited rule, I mean in term of how long one leader can stay in power. The era of president for life is not gone yet but it is on its way out and that is one of the problems with Mugabe and others.
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