He is a fool who treats his brother worse than a stranger.
CHINUA ACHEBENow 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.
More Chinua Achebe Quotes
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If a child washed his hands, he could eat with kings.
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I prefer to go on trying all kinds of things, not to be told, This is the way it is done.
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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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My son even if you want to fall, at least fall where your bones can be gathered.
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I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.
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There is nothing to fear from someone who shouts.
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Nobody can teach me who I am.
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People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that’s the time to do something about it, not when it’s around your neck.
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When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.
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When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands.
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Literature, whether handed down by word or mouth or in print, gives us a second handle on reality.
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I am against people reaping where they have not sown. But we have a saying that if you want to eat a toad you should look for a fat and juicy one.
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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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And theories are no more than fictions which help us to make sense of experience and which are subject to disconfirmation when their explanations are no longer adequate.
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What a man does not know is greater than he.
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A child cannot pay for its mother’s milk.
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If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all.
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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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The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.
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If one finger brings oil it soils the others.
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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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While we do our good works let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.
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An angry man is always a stupid man.
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There is no story that is not true.
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When brothers fight to death a stranger inherit their father’s estate.
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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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