The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use.
CHINUA ACHEBEArt is man’s constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.
More Chinua Achebe Quotes
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Nobody can teach me who I am.
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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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If you don’t like someone’s story, write your own.
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When a mad man walks naked, it is his kinsmen who feel shame, not himself.
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A child cannot pay for its mother’s milk.
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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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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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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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A goat does not eat into a hen’s stomach no matter how friendly the two may be.
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Every lizard lies on its belly, so we cannot tell which has a belly-ache
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Nigeria is what it is because its leaders are not what they should be.
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We shall all live. We pray for life, children, a good harvest and happiness. You will have what is good for you and I will have what is good for me. Let the kite perch and let the egret perch too. If one says no to the other, let his wing break.
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The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.
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We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own.
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Whatever music you beat on your drum there is somebody who can dance to it.
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