Women and music should not be dated.
CHINUA ACHEBEA man who does not lick his lips, can he blame the harmattan for drying them?
More Chinua Achebe Quotes
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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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In dealing with a man who thinks you are a fool, it is good sometimes to remind him that you know what he knows but have chosen to appear foolish for the sake of peace.
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A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.
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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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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 man that brings ant-infested faggots into his hut should not grumble when lizards begin to pay him a visit.
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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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In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasn’t perhaps completely whole, that something was left out.
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A child cannot pay for its mother’s milk.
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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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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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It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is the mark on the face that sets one people apart from their neighbors.
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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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When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground.
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