It has always been quite apparent to me that no important story can fail to tell us something of value to us.
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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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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Every generation must recognize and embrace the task it is peculiarly designed by history and by providence to perform.
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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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Wisdom is like a goatskin bag; every man carries his own.
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No matter how prosperous a man was, if he was unable to rule his women and his children (and especially his women) he was not really a man.
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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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The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.
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An angry man is always a stupid man.
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The singer should sing well even if it is merely to himself, rather than dance badly for the whole world.
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He is a fool who treats his brother worse than a stranger.
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Nobody can teach me who I am.
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When brothers fight to death a stranger inherit their father’s estate.
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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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Nobody can teach me who I am. You can describe parts of me, but who I am – and what I need – is something I have to find out myself.
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A man who pays respect to the great paves the way for his own greatness
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