If one finger brings oil it soils the others.
CHINUA ACHEBENobody can teach me who I am.
More Chinua Achebe Quotes
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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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One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.
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An artist in my view is always afraid of extremists; he is always afraid of those who claim to have found the ultimate solution to any question.
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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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A man who pays respect to the great paves the way for his own greatness
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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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Wisdom is like a goatskin bag; every man carries his own.
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Women and music should not be dated.
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No man however great is greater than his people.
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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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The sun will shine on those who stand before it shines on those who kneel under them.
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My weapon is literature.
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A goat does not eat into a hen’s stomach no matter how friendly the two may be.
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If a child washed his hands, he could eat with kings.
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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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