I am against people reaping where they have not sown. But we have a saying that if you want to eat a toad you should look for a fat and juicy one.
CHINUA ACHEBEThere is no story that is not true.
More Chinua Achebe Quotes
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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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There is nothing to fear from someone who shouts.
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One reason why I am quite angry with what is happening in Nigeria today is that everything has collapsed. If I decide to go back now, there will be so many problems – where will I find the physical therapy and other things that I now require?
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If I hold her hand she says, ‘Don’t touch!’ If I hold her foot she says ‘Don’t touch!’ But when I hold her waist-beads she pretends not to know.
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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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Storytellers are a threat. They threaten all champions of control, they frighten usurpers of the right-to-freedom of the human spirit — in state, in church or mosque, in party congress, in the university or wherever.
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Most writers who are beginners, if they are honest with themselves, will admit that they are praying for a readership as they begin to write. But it should be the quality of the craft, not the audience, that should be the greatest motivating factor.
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A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.
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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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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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The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use.
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Nobody can teach me who I am.
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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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There is that great proverb – that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.
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When a man is at peace with his gods and ancestors, his harvest will be good or bad according to the strength of his arm.
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