Whenever you see a toad jumping in broad daylight, then know that something is after its life.
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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It has always been quite apparent to me that no important story can fail to tell us something of value to us.
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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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There is that great proverb – that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.
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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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Wisdom is like a goatskin bag; every man carries his own.
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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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He is a fool who treats his brother worse than a stranger.
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The lizard that jumped from a high Iroko tree to the ground said he would praise himself if no-one else did.
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If you don’t like someone’s story, write your own.
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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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One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.
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Every lizard lies on its belly, so we cannot tell which has a belly-ache
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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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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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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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