Women and music should not be dated.
CHINUA ACHEBEOnce 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.
More Chinua Achebe Quotes
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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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The sun will shine on those who stand before it shines on those who kneel under them.
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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 makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.
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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 price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use.
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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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An artist in my view is always afraid of extremists; he is always afraid of those who claim to have found the ultimate solution to any question.
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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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Nigeria is what it is because its leaders are not what they should be.
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The singer should sing well even if it is merely to himself, rather than dance badly for the whole world.
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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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In dealing with a man who thinks you are a fool, it is good sometimes to remind him that you know what he knows but have chosen to appear foolish for the sake of peace.
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There is that great proverb – that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.
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We do not seek to hurt any man, but if any man seeks to hurt us may he break his neck.
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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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A man who does not lick his lips, can he blame the harmattan for drying them?
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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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The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.
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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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When a mad man walks naked, it is his kinsmen who feel shame, not himself.
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A debt may get mouldy, but it never decays.
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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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People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.
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He is a fool who treats his brother worse than a stranger.
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We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own.
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