It is praiseworthy to be brave and fearless, but sometimes it is better to be a coward. We often stand in the compound of a coward to point at the ruins where a brave man used to live.
CHINUA ACHEBEA debt may get mouldy, but it never decays.
More Chinua Achebe Quotes
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While we do our good works let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.
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Women and music should not be dated.
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People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that’s the time to do something about it, not when it’s around your neck.
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Let the kite perch and let the eagle perch too – If one says no to the other, let his wing break.
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The impatient idealist says: ‘Give me a place to stand and I shall move the earth.’ But such a place does not exist. We all have to stand on the earth itself and go with her at her pace.
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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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People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.
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When we are comfortable and inattentive, we run the risk of committing grave injustices absentmindedly.
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A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.
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It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is the mark on the face that sets one people apart from their neighbors.
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If a child washed his hands, he could eat with kings.
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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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Among the Igbo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten.
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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 has always been quite apparent to me that no important story can fail to tell us something of value to us.
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