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.
CHINUA ACHEBEWhen we are comfortable and inattentive, we run the risk of committing grave injustices absentmindedly.
More Chinua Achebe Quotes
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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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The language of young men is pull down and destroy; but an old man speaks of conciliation.
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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.
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A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.
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Charity is the opium of the privileged.
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A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.
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My son even if you want to fall, at least fall where your bones can be gathered.
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If you don’t like someone’s story, write your own.
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A man who does not lick his lips, can he blame the harmattan for drying them?
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Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story even if on the surface it’s far removed from your situation.
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When we are comfortable and inattentive, we run the risk of committing grave injustices absentmindedly.
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You do not know me,’ said Tortoise. ‘I am a changed man. I have learned that a man who makes trouble for others makes trouble for himself.
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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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Most writers who are beginners, if they are honest with themselves, will admit that they are praying for a readership as they begin to write. But it should be the quality of the craft, not the audience, that should be the greatest motivating factor.
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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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