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 ACHEBEEach of my books is different. Deliberately. I wanted to create my society, my people, in their fullness.
More Chinua Achebe Quotes
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We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own.
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Just think of the work you’ve set yourself to do, and do it as well as you can.
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A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.
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When brothers fight to death a stranger inherit their father’s estate.
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When a mad man walks naked, it is his kinsmen who feel shame, not himself.
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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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Whatever music you beat on your drum there is somebody who can dance to it.
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We do not seek to hurt any man, but if any man seeks to hurt us may he break his neck.
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The language of young men is pull down and destroy; but an old man speaks of conciliation.
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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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When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don’t just turn it off one day.
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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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Only the story can continue beyond the war and the warrior. The story outlives the sound of the war drum… The story is our escort. Without it we are blind… It is the thing that sets us apart from cattle.
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Charity is the opium of the privileged.
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Literature, whether handed down by word or mouth or in print, gives us a second handle on reality.
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