The sun will shine on those who stand before it shines on those who kneel under them.
CHINUA ACHEBEIf one finger brings oil it soils the others.
More Chinua Achebe Quotes
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Every generation must recognize and embrace the task it is peculiarly designed by history and by providence to perform.
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An angry man is always a stupid man.
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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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Nobody can teach me who I am.
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It is the storyteller who makes us what we are, who creates history. The storyteller creates the memory that the survivors must have – otherwise their surviving would have no meaning.
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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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We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own.
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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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A goat does not eat into a hen’s stomach no matter how friendly the two may be.
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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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If a child washed his hands, he could eat with kings.
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Women and music should not be dated.
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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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When we are comfortable and inattentive, we run the risk of committing grave injustices absentmindedly.
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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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