Africa is to Europe as the picture is to Dorian Gray-a carrier onto whom the master unloads his physical & moral deformities.
CHINUA ACHEBEOne 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?
More Chinua Achebe Quotes
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Wisdom is like a goatskin bag; every man carries his own.
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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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The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.
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One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.
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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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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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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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There is nothing to fear from someone who shouts.
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The language of young men is pull down and destroy; but an old man speaks of conciliation.
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Whatever music you beat on your drum there is somebody who can dance to it.
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When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don’t just turn it off one day.
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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.
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Every generation must find its mission and fulfill it, as Fanon said – or betray it. So it is not something that you can write up on the wall, saying this is what has to be done. Every generation has to discover what it needs to do.
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We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own. The Igbo, always practical, put it concretely in their proverb Onye ji onye n’ani ji onwe ya: ‘He who will hold another down in the mud must stay in the mud to keep him down.’
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The sun will shine on those who stand before it shines on those who kneel under them.
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