A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.
CHINUA ACHEBENo man however great is greater than his people.
More Chinua Achebe Quotes
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An artist in my view is always afraid of extremists; he is always afraid of those who claim to have found the ultimate solution to any question.
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The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.
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When brothers fight to death a stranger inherit their father’s estate.
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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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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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If one finger brings oil it soils the others.
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Among the Igbo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten.
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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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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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There is nothing to fear from someone who shouts.
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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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When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don’t just turn it off one day.
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I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.
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A coward may cover the ground with his words but when the time comes to fight he runs away.
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