It is praiseworthy to be brave and fearless, but sometimes it is better to be a coward. We often stand in the compound of a coward to point at the ruins where a brave man used to live.
CHINUA ACHEBEI think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.
More Chinua Achebe Quotes
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A man who does not lick his lips, can he blame the harmattan for drying them?
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If you have leaders who are prepared to incite group against group it is very easy to manufacture reasons and excuses.
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My son even if you want to fall, at least fall where your bones can be gathered.
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Every lizard lies on its belly, so we cannot tell which has a belly-ache
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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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My weapon is literature.
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What a man does not know is greater than he.
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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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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.
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We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own.
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Storytellers are a threat. They threaten all champions of control, they frighten usurpers of the right-to-freedom of the human spirit — in state, in church or mosque, in party congress, in the university or wherever.
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If one finger brings oil it soils the others.
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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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There is that great proverb – that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.
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Whatever music you beat on your drum there is somebody who can dance to it.
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