Do not be in a hurry to rush into the pleasures of the world like the young antelope who danced herself lame when the main dance was yet to come.
CHINUA ACHEBEWhen I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands.
More Chinua Achebe Quotes
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Women and music should not be dated.
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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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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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A man who does not lick his lips, can he blame the harmattan for drying them?
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Literature, whether handed down by word or mouth or in print, gives us a second handle on reality.
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Let the kite perch and let the eagle perch too – If one says no to the other, let his wing break.
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When brothers fight to death a stranger inherit their father’s estate.
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One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.
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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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Each of my books is different. Deliberately. I wanted to create my society, my people, in their fullness.
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One reason why I am quite angry with what is happening in Nigeria today is that everything has collapsed. If I decide to go back now, there will be so many problems – where will I find the physical therapy and other things that I now require?
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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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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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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.
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We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own. The Igbo, always practical, put it concretely in their proverb Onye ji onye n’ani ji onwe ya: ‘He who will hold another down in the mud must stay in the mud to keep him down.’
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