A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.
CHINUA ACHEBEWhen a mad man walks naked, it is his kinsmen who feel shame, not himself.
More Chinua Achebe Quotes
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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.
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My weapon is literature.
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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 have leaders who are prepared to incite group against group it is very easy to manufacture reasons and excuses.
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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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In dealing with a man who thinks you are a fool, it is good sometimes to remind him that you know what he knows but have chosen to appear foolish for the sake of peace.
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People go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they fail to see what is there in front of them.
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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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Dancing is very important nowadays. No girl will look at you if you can’t dance.
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If you don’t like someone’s story, write your own.
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The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use.
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No man however great is greater than his people.
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I prefer to go on trying all kinds of things, not to be told, This is the way it is done.
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It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is the mark on the face that sets one people apart from their neighbors.
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