The singer should sing well even if it is merely to himself, rather than dance badly for the whole world.
CHINUA ACHEBEThe only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.
More Chinua Achebe Quotes
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The sun will shine on those who stand before it shines on those who kneel under them.
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While we do our good works let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.
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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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When we are comfortable and inattentive, we run the risk of committing grave injustices absentmindedly.
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As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us.
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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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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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An angry man is always a stupid man.
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Become familiar with your home, but know also about your neighbors. The young man who never went anywhere thinks his mother is the greatest cook.
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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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There is a moral obligation, I think, not to ally oneself with power against the powerless.
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He is a fool who treats his brother worse than a stranger.
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If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all.
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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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Africa is to Europe as the picture is to Dorian Gray-a carrier onto whom the master unloads his physical & moral deformities.
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