When we are comfortable and inattentive, we run the risk of committing grave injustices absentmindedly.
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.
More Chinua Achebe Quotes
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As a rule I don’t like suffering to no purpose. Suffering should be creative, should give birth to something good and lovely.
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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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Every generation must find its mission and fulfill it, as Fanon said – or betray it. So it is not something that you can write up on the wall, saying this is what has to be done. Every generation has to discover what it needs to do.
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Women and music should not be dated.
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The impatient idealist says: ‘Give me a place to stand and I shall move the earth.’ But such a place does not exist. We all have to stand on the earth itself and go with her at her pace.
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The singer should sing well even if it is merely to himself, rather than dance badly for the whole world.
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It has always been quite apparent to me that no important story can fail to tell us something of value to us.
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My weapon is literature.
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There is no story that is not true.
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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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A goat does not eat into a hen’s stomach no matter how friendly the two may be.
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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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When brothers fight to death a stranger inherit their father’s estate.
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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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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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