Whenever you see a toad jumping in broad daylight, then know that something is after its life.
CHINUA ACHEBEThe 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.
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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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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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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I prefer to go on trying all kinds of things, not to be told, This is the way it is done.
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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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Become familiar with your home, but know also about your neighbors. The young man who never went anywhere thinks his mother is the greatest cook.
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Nobody can teach me who I am. You can describe parts of me, but who I am – and what I need – is something I have to find out myself.
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An angry man is always a stupid man.
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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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It is praiseworthy to be brave and fearless, but sometimes it is better to be a coward. We often stand in the compound of a coward to point at the ruins where a brave man used to live.
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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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A goat does not eat into a hen’s stomach no matter how friendly the two may be.
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If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all.
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He is a fool who treats his brother worse than a stranger.
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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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