The man that brings ant-infested faggots into his hut should not grumble when lizards begin to pay him a visit.
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.
More Chinua Achebe Quotes
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We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own.
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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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The impatient idealist says: ‘Give me a place to stand and I shall move the earth.’ But such a place does not exist. We all have to stand on the earth itself and go with her at her pace.
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Procrastination is a lazy man’s apology.
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Do not be in a hurry to rush into the pleasures of the world like the young antelope who danced herself lame when the main dance was yet to come.
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Literature, whether handed down by word or mouth or in print, gives us a second handle on reality.
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I 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.
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No man however great is greater than his people.
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I don’t like to see mistakes on the typewriter. I like a perfect script. On the typewriter I will sometimes leave a phrase that is not right, not what I want, simply because to change it would be a bit messy.
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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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A man who does not lick his lips, can he blame the harmattan for drying them?
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One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.
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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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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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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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