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There is a moral obligation, I think, not to ally oneself with power against the powerless.

Chinua Achebe

Each of my books is different. Deliberately. I wanted to create my society, my people, in their fullness.
CHINUA ACHEBE

Book Creation Different Myself People
Whenever you see a toad jumping in broad daylight, then know that something is after its life.
CHINUA ACHEBE

Animal Frog Known Life See Yourself
When a man is at peace with his gods and ancestors, his harvest will be good or bad according to the strength of his arm.
CHINUA ACHEBE

Arm God Goodness Harvest Man Peace Strength
There is nothing to fear from someone who shouts.
CHINUA ACHEBE

Character Fear Man Nature Oneself Shout
Wisdom is like a goatskin bag; every man carries his own.
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Carry Himself Man Wisdom
Every generation must find its mission and fulfill it, as Fanon said – or betray it. So it is not something that you can write up on the wall, saying this is what has to be done. Every generation has to discover what it needs to do.
CHINUA ACHEBE

Discover Finding Fulfill Generation Mission Need
When a coward sees a man he can beat he becomes hungry for a fight.
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Competition Coward Fight Hungry Man See
When we are comfortable and inattentive, we run the risk of committing grave injustices absentmindedly.
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Attention Comfortable Commitment Grave Risk Run
The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.
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Experience Learning Philosophy Wisdom
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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Audience Beginning Factor Praying Writing
When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground.
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Death Ground Library Man Old
Procrastination is a lazy man’s apology.
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Apology Man Perspective Procrastination
A child cannot pay for its mother’s milk.
CHINUA ACHEBE

Children Milk Mom Pay
One 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 ACHEBE

Angry Collapse Quit Reason Therapy Trouble
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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Oneself Peace People Understand
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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Art Creation Effort Himself Reality

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