If you don’t like someone’s story, write your own. If you don’t like what somebody says, say what it is you don’t like.
CHINUA ACHEBEIt is the storyteller who makes us what we are, who creates history. The storyteller creates the memory that the survivors must have – otherwise their surviving would have no meaning.
More Chinua Achebe Quotes
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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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Every generation must find its mission and fulfill it, as Fanon said – or betray it. So it is not something that you can write up on the wall, saying this is what has to be done. Every generation has to discover what it needs to do.
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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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A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.
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We shall all live. We pray for life, children, a good harvest and happiness. You will have what is good for you and I will have what is good for me. Let the kite perch and let the egret perch too. If one says no to the other, let his wing break.
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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.
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The man that brings ant-infested faggots into his hut should not grumble when lizards begin to pay him a visit.
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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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If you don’t like someone’s story, write your own.
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An angry man is always a stupid man.
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He is a fool who treats his brother worse than a stranger.
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There is a moral obligation, I think, not to ally oneself with power against the powerless.
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When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands.
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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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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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