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.
CHINUA ACHEBEWhen a coward sees a man he can beat he becomes hungry for a fight.
More Chinua Achebe Quotes
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When we are comfortable and inattentive, we run the risk of committing grave injustices absentmindedly.
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If you don’t like someone’s story, write your own. If you don’t like what somebody says, say what it is you don’t like.
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Whatever music you beat on your drum there is somebody who can dance to it.
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If you don’t like someone’s story, write your own.
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And theories are no more than fictions which help us to make sense of experience and which are subject to disconfirmation when their explanations are no longer adequate.
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We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own.
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Privilege, you see, is one of the great adversaries of the imagination; it spreads a thick layer of adipose tissue over our sensitivity.
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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 only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.
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Every lizard lies on its belly, so we cannot tell which has a belly-ache
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There is a moral obligation, I think, not to ally oneself with power against the powerless.
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A disease that has never been seen before cannot be cured with every-day herbs.
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People go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they fail to see what is there in front of them.
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A child cannot pay for its mother’s milk.
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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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