A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.
CHINUA ACHEBEMy weapon is literature.
More Chinua Achebe Quotes
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We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own.
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In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasn’t perhaps completely whole, that something was left out.
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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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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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I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.
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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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If you don’t like someone’s story, write your own. If you don’t like what somebody says, say what it is you don’t like.
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If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all.
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As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us.
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Every lizard lies on its belly, so we cannot tell which has a belly-ache
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When a mad man walks naked, it is his kinsmen who feel shame, not himself.
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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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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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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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