When mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth
CHINUA ACHEBEA man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.
More Chinua Achebe Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Just think of the work you’ve set yourself to do, and do it as well as you can.
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I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.
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A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.
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What a man does not know is greater than he.
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We shall all live. We pray for life, children, a good harvest and happiness. You will have what is good for you and I will have what is good for me. Let the kite perch and let the egret perch too. If one says no to the other, let his wing break.
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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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Dancing is very important nowadays. No girl will look at you if you can’t dance.
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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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We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own.
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No man however great is greater than his people.
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Nigeria is what it is because its leaders are not what they should be.
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