My weapon is literature.
CHINUA ACHEBEA child cannot pay for its mother’s milk.
More Chinua Achebe Quotes
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A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.
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A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.
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A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.
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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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Dancing is very important nowadays. No girl will look at you if you can’t dance.
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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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The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.
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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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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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A child cannot pay for its mother’s milk.
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When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground.
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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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Nigeria is what it is because its leaders are not what they should be.
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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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Whenever you see a toad jumping in broad daylight, then know that something is after its life.
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