As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us.
CHINUA ACHEBEThere is a moral obligation, I think, not to ally oneself with power against the powerless.
More Chinua Achebe Quotes
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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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My weapon is literature.
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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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Nobody can teach me who I am. You can describe parts of me, but who I am – and what I need – is something I have to find out myself.
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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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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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When brothers fight to death a stranger inherit their father’s estate.
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When we are comfortable and inattentive, we run the risk of committing grave injustices absentmindedly.
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Only the story can continue beyond the war and the warrior. The story outlives the sound of the war drum… The story is our escort. Without it we are blind… It is the thing that sets us apart from cattle.
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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 man that brings ant-infested faggots into his hut should not grumble when lizards begin to pay him a visit.
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If a child washed his hands, he could eat with kings.
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The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.
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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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Whenever you see a toad jumping in broad daylight, then know that something is after its life.
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