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.
CHINUA ACHEBEStorytellers 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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If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all.
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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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Each of my books is different. Deliberately. I wanted to create my society, my people, in their fullness.
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The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.
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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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Whenever you see a toad jumping in broad daylight, then know that something is after its life.
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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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The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use.
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When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground.
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There is no story that is not true.
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My weapon is literature.
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Charity is the opium of the privileged.
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A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.
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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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The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.
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