If you don’t like someone’s story, write your own.
CHINUA ACHEBEThere is no story that is not true.
More Chinua Achebe Quotes
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Nigeria is what it is because its leaders are not what they should be.
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No man however great is greater than his people.
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The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.
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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 price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use.
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When a coward sees a man he can beat he becomes hungry for a fight.
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Charity is the opium of the privileged.
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In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasn’t perhaps completely whole, that something was left out.
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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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If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all.
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A man who pays respect to the great paves the way for his own greatness
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There is nothing to fear from someone who shouts.
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Procrastination is a lazy man’s apology.
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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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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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