A goat does not eat into a hen’s stomach no matter how friendly the two may be.
CHINUA ACHEBEA goat does not eat into a hen’s stomach no matter how friendly the two may be.
CHINUA ACHEBEThe problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don’t always know what you get at the other end. If you are not careful you could replace a bad government with one much worse!
CHINUA ACHEBEMy son even if you want to fall, at least fall where your bones can be gathered.
CHINUA ACHEBEOne reason why I am quite angry with what is happening in Nigeria today is that everything has collapsed. If I decide to go back now, there will be so many problems – where will I find the physical therapy and other things that I now require?
CHINUA ACHEBEA debt may get mouldy, but it never decays.
CHINUA ACHEBEThe language of young men is pull down and destroy; but an old man speaks of conciliation.
CHINUA ACHEBEWe cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own.
CHINUA ACHEBEI prefer to go on trying all kinds of things, not to be told, This is the way it is done.
CHINUA ACHEBEWhatever music you beat on your drum there is somebody who can dance to it.
CHINUA ACHEBEWisdom is like a goatskin bag; every man carries his own.
CHINUA ACHEBEA man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.
CHINUA ACHEBEAs long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us.
CHINUA ACHEBEI 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.
CHINUA ACHEBEIn 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.
CHINUA ACHEBEA child cannot pay for its mother’s milk.
CHINUA ACHEBENo man however great is greater than his people.
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