If you don’t like someone’s story, write your own.
CHINUA ACHEBEWe cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own.
More Chinua Achebe Quotes
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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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When we are comfortable and inattentive, we run the risk of committing grave injustices absentmindedly.
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Every generation must recognize and embrace the task it is peculiarly designed by history and by providence to perform.
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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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We do not seek to hurt any man, but if any man seeks to hurt us may he break his neck.
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If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all.
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Wisdom is like a goatskin bag; every man carries his own.
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It has always been quite apparent to me that no important story can fail to tell us something of value to us.
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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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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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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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When a coward sees a man he can beat he becomes hungry for a fight.
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I think not just Nigeria but I think the whole of Africa has to turn back to the rural areas and that’s where the majority of the citizens are and that’s where the engine of of development has to be found.
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If I hold her hand she says, ‘Don’t touch!’ If I hold her foot she says ‘Don’t touch!’ But when I hold her waist-beads she pretends not to know.
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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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