It 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.
CHINUA ACHEBEIf 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.
More Chinua Achebe Quotes
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Art is man’s constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.
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What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens – whether people are of a different ethnicity or gender.
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No man however great is greater than his people.
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My weapon is literature.
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Nobody can teach me who I am.
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Most writers who are beginners, if they are honest with themselves, will admit that they are praying for a readership as they begin to write. But it should be the quality of the craft, not the audience, that should be the greatest motivating factor.
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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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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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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 damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.
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The world is large,” said Okonkwo. “I have even heard that in some tribes a man’s children belong to his wife and her family.” “That cannot be,” said Machi. “You might as well say that the woman lies on top of the man when they are making the babies.
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When a man is at peace with his gods and ancestors, his harvest will be good or bad according to the strength of his arm.
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Nigeria is what it is because its leaders are not what they should be.
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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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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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