Whatever music you beat on your drum there is somebody who can dance to it.
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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The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.
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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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If a child washed his hands, he could eat with kings.
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We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own. The Igbo, always practical, put it concretely in their proverb Onye ji onye n’ani ji onwe ya: ‘He who will hold another down in the mud must stay in the mud to keep him down.’
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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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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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One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.
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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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Dancing is very important nowadays. No girl will look at you if you can’t dance.
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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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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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If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all.
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Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story even if on the surface it’s far removed from your situation.
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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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People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.
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