We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own.
CHINUA ACHEBEA debt may get mouldy, but it never decays.
More Chinua Achebe Quotes
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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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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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Women and music should not be dated.
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Do not be in a hurry to rush into the pleasures of the world like the young antelope who danced herself lame when the main dance was yet to come.
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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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I think not just Nigeria but I think the whole of Africa has to turn back to the rural areas and that’s where the majority of the citizens are and that’s where the engine of of development has to be found.
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The man that brings ant-infested faggots into his hut should not grumble when lizards begin to pay him a visit.
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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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A debt may get mouldy, but it never decays.
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The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use.
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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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A goat does not eat into a hen’s stomach no matter how friendly the two may be.
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We do not seek to hurt any man, but if any man seeks to hurt us may he break his neck.
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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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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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