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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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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Just think of the work you’ve set yourself to do, and do it as well as you can.
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An angry man is always a stupid man.
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Every generation must find its mission and fulfill it, as Fanon said – or betray it. So it is not something that you can write up on the wall, saying this is what has to be done. Every generation has to discover what it needs to do.
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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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Wisdom is like a goatskin bag; every man carries his own.
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Now one of the changes that must come to Africa is the idea of limited rule, I mean in term of how long one leader can stay in power. The era of president for life is not gone yet but it is on its way out and that is one of the problems with Mugabe and others.
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If one finger brings oil it soils the others.
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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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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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No man however great is greater than his people.
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When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands.
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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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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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A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.
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