Nobody can teach me who I am.
CHINUA ACHEBEWhen a mad man walks naked, it is his kinsmen who feel shame, not himself.
More Chinua Achebe Quotes
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Become familiar with your home, but know also about your neighbors. The young man who never went anywhere thinks his mother is the greatest cook.
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Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story even if on the surface it’s far removed from your situation.
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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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A debt may get mouldy, but it never decays.
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I am against people reaping where they have not sown. But we have a saying that if you want to eat a toad you should look for a fat and juicy one.
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You do not know me,’ said Tortoise. ‘I am a changed man. I have learned that a man who makes trouble for others makes trouble for himself.
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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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We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own.
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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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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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As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us.
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When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.
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The sun will shine on those who stand before it shines on those who kneel under them.
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Charity is the opium of the privileged.
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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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