The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use.
CHINUA ACHEBEAn angry man is always a stupid man.
More Chinua Achebe Quotes
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No man however great is greater than his people.
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A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.
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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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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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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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A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.
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Now one of the changes that must come to Africa is the idea of limited rule, I mean in term of how long one leader can stay in power. The era of president for life is not gone yet but it is on its way out and that is one of the problems with Mugabe and others.
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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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A coward may cover the ground with his words but when the time comes to fight he runs away.
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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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Each of my books is different. Deliberately. I wanted to create my society, my people, in their fullness.
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When mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth
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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.
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When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don’t just turn it off one day.
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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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