My son even if you want to fall, at least fall where your bones can be gathered.
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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The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don’t always know what you get at the other end. If you are not careful you could replace a bad government with one much worse!
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The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.
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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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The language of young men is pull down and destroy; but an old man speaks of conciliation.
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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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He is a fool who treats his brother worse than a stranger.
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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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A man who does not lick his lips, can he blame the harmattan for drying them?
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If a child washed his hands, he could eat with kings.
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Nigeria is what it is because its leaders are not what they should be.
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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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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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Africa is to Europe as the picture is to Dorian Gray-a carrier onto whom the master unloads his physical & moral deformities.
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When brothers fight to death a stranger inherit their father’s estate.
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Each of my books is different. Deliberately. I wanted to create my society, my people, in their fullness.
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