A child cannot pay for its mother’s milk.
CHINUA ACHEBEThe impatient idealist says: ‘Give me a place to stand and I shall move the earth.’ But such a place does not exist. We all have to stand on the earth itself and go with her at her pace.
More Chinua Achebe Quotes
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My son even if you want to fall, at least fall where your bones can be gathered.
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If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all.
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Nobody can teach me who I am.
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When we are comfortable and inattentive, we run the risk of committing grave injustices absentmindedly.
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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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People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that’s the time to do something about it, not when it’s around your neck.
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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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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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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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What a man does not know is greater than he.
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A disease that has never been seen before cannot be cured with every-day herbs.
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Every generation must recognize and embrace the task it is peculiarly designed by history and by providence to perform.
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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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When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground.
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