The singer should sing well even if it is merely to himself, rather than dance badly for the whole world.
CHINUA ACHEBEA man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.
More Chinua Achebe Quotes
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When a mad man walks naked, it is his kinsmen who feel shame, not himself.
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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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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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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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The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.
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When mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth
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The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.
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If you don’t like someone’s story, write your own.
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Dancing is very important nowadays. No girl will look at you if you can’t dance.
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A man who does not lick his lips, can he blame the harmattan for drying them?
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If you have leaders who are prepared to incite group against group it is very easy to manufacture reasons and excuses.
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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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Literature, whether handed down by word or mouth or in print, gives us a second handle on reality.
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A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.
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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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