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.
CHINUA ACHEBEI 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.
More Chinua Achebe Quotes
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The language of young men is pull down and destroy; but an old man speaks of conciliation.
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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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Among the Igbo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten.
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When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.
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An artist in my view is always afraid of extremists; he is always afraid of those who claim to have found the ultimate solution to any question.
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If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all.
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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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Only the story can continue beyond the war and the warrior. The story outlives the sound of the war drum… The story is our escort. Without it we are blind… It is the thing that sets us apart from cattle.
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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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The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.
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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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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 disease that has never been seen before cannot be cured with every-day herbs.
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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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In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasn’t perhaps completely whole, that something was left out.
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