When a man is at peace with his gods and ancestors, his harvest will be good or bad according to the strength of his arm.
CHINUA ACHEBEA man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.
More Chinua Achebe Quotes
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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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If a child washed his hands, he could eat with kings.
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When brothers fight to death a stranger inherit their father’s estate.
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There is no story that is not true.
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He is a fool who treats his brother worse than a stranger.
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One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.
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The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don’t always know what you get at the other end. If you are not careful you could replace a bad government with one much worse!
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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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When we are comfortable and inattentive, we run the risk of committing grave injustices absentmindedly.
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Whatever music you beat on your drum there is somebody who can dance to it.
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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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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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A child cannot pay for its mother’s milk.
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A coward may cover the ground with his words but when the time comes to fight he runs away.
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You do not know me,’ said Tortoise. ‘I am a changed man. I have learned that a man who makes trouble for others makes trouble for himself.
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