Only the story can continue beyond the war and the warrior. The story outlives the sound of the war drum… The story is our escort. Without it we are blind… It is the thing that sets us apart from cattle.
CHINUA ACHEBEThe world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.
More Chinua Achebe Quotes
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When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.
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I think not just Nigeria but I think the whole of Africa has to turn back to the rural areas and that’s where the majority of the citizens are and that’s where the engine of of development has to be found.
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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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What a man does not know is greater than he.
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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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If you have leaders who are prepared to incite group against group it is very easy to manufacture reasons and excuses.
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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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If I hold her hand she says, ‘Don’t touch!’ If I hold her foot she says ‘Don’t touch!’ But when I hold her waist-beads she pretends not to know.
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When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground.
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Whenever you see a toad jumping in broad daylight, then know that something is after its life.
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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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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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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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