You do not know me,’ said Tortoise. ‘I am a changed man. I have learned that a man who makes trouble for others makes trouble for himself.
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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A man who pays respect to the great paves the way for his own greatness
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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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I think not just Nigeria but I think the whole of Africa has to turn back to the rural areas and that’s where the majority of the citizens are and that’s where the engine of of development has to be found.
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Storytellers are a threat. They threaten all champions of control, they frighten usurpers of the right-to-freedom of the human spirit — in state, in church or mosque, in party congress, in the university or wherever.
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When a man is at peace with his gods and ancestors, his harvest will be good or bad according to the strength of his arm.
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Wisdom is like a goatskin bag; every man carries his 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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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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An angry man is always a stupid man.
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If you have leaders who are prepared to incite group against group it is very easy to manufacture reasons and excuses.
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And theories are no more than fictions which help us to make sense of experience and which are subject to disconfirmation when their explanations are no longer adequate.
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When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground.
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A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.
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Nobody can teach me who I am.
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There is that great proverb – that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.
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