A goat does not eat into a hen’s stomach no matter how friendly the two may be.
CHINUA ACHEBEA goat does not eat into a hen’s stomach no matter how friendly the two may be.
CHINUA ACHEBENobody can teach me who I am.
CHINUA ACHEBEHe is a fool who treats his brother worse than a stranger.
CHINUA ACHEBEIf you have leaders who are prepared to incite group against group it is very easy to manufacture reasons and excuses.
CHINUA ACHEBEOne of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.
CHINUA ACHEBEOne 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 ACHEBEWhen a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don’t just turn it off one day.
CHINUA ACHEBEMy weapon is literature.
CHINUA ACHEBEPrivilege, you see, is one of the great adversaries of the imagination; it spreads a thick layer of adipose tissue over our sensitivity.
CHINUA ACHEBEI prefer to go on trying all kinds of things, not to be told, This is the way it is done.
CHINUA ACHEBENigeria is what it is because its leaders are not what they should be.
CHINUA ACHEBENo 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.
CHINUA ACHEBENo man however great is greater than his people.
CHINUA ACHEBEI 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.
CHINUA ACHEBEAfrica is to Europe as the picture is to Dorian Gray-a carrier onto whom the master unloads his physical & moral deformities.
CHINUA ACHEBEPeople go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they fail to see what is there in front of them.
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