A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.
CHINUA ACHEBEBecome familiar with your home, but know also about your neighbors. The young man who never went anywhere thinks his mother is the greatest cook.
More Chinua Achebe Quotes
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The man that brings ant-infested faggots into his hut should not grumble when lizards begin to pay him a visit.
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It is praiseworthy to be brave and fearless, but sometimes it is better to be a coward. We often stand in the compound of a coward to point at the ruins where a brave man used to live.
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A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.
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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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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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A debt may get mouldy, but it never decays.
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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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An angry man is always a stupid man.
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And theories are no more than fictions which help us to make sense of experience and which are subject to disconfirmation when their explanations are no longer adequate.
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The language of young men is pull down and destroy; but an old man speaks of conciliation.
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Let the kite perch and let the eagle perch too – If one says no to the other, let his wing break.
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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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The lizard that jumped from a high Iroko tree to the ground said he would praise himself if no-one else did.
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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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People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.
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