Nobody can teach me who I am.
CHINUA ACHEBEWhatever music you beat on your drum there is somebody who can dance to it.
More Chinua Achebe Quotes
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As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us.
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Dancing is very important nowadays. No girl will look at you if you can’t dance.
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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 mad man walks naked, it is his kinsmen who feel shame, not himself.
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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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A coward may cover the ground with his words but when the time comes to fight he runs away.
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If you don’t like someone’s story, write your own.
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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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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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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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You do not know me,’ said Tortoise. ‘I am a changed man. I have learned that a man who makes trouble for others makes trouble for himself.
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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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A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.
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Now one of the changes that must come to Africa is the idea of limited rule, I mean in term of how long one leader can stay in power. The era of president for life is not gone yet but it is on its way out and that is one of the problems with Mugabe and others.
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If a child washed his hands, he could eat with kings.
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