What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens – whether people are of a different ethnicity or gender.
CHINUA ACHEBEIf you don’t like someone’s story, write your own.
More Chinua Achebe Quotes
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The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use.
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I don’t like to see mistakes on the typewriter. I like a perfect script. On the typewriter I will sometimes leave a phrase that is not right, not what I want, simply because to change it would be a bit messy.
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The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don’t always know what you get at the other end. If you are not careful you could replace a bad government with one much worse!
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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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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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An artist in my view is always afraid of extremists; he is always afraid of those who claim to have found the ultimate solution to any question.
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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 brothers fight to death a stranger inherit their father’s estate.
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A man who does not lick his lips, can he blame the harmattan for drying them?
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Privilege, you see, is one of the great adversaries of the imagination; it spreads a thick layer of adipose tissue over our sensitivity.
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A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.
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Most writers who are beginners, if they are honest with themselves, will admit that they are praying for a readership as they begin to write. But it should be the quality of the craft, not the audience, that should be the greatest motivating factor.
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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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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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Every generation must recognize and embrace the task it is peculiarly designed by history and by providence to perform.
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There is no story that is not true.
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Women and music should not be dated.
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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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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 world is large,” said Okonkwo. “I have even heard that in some tribes a man’s children belong to his wife and her family.” “That cannot be,” said Machi. “You might as well say that the woman lies on top of the man when they are making the babies.
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If one finger brings oil it soils the others.
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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.
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A disease that has never been seen before cannot be cured with every-day herbs.
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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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No man however great is greater than his people.
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When mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth
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