A coward may cover the ground with his words but when the time comes to fight he runs away.
CHINUA ACHEBEMy weapon is literature.
More Chinua Achebe Quotes
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Women and music should not be dated.
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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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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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An angry man is always a stupid man.
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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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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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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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He is a fool who treats his brother worse than a stranger.
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The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.
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When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground.
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A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.
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There is no story that is not true.
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If I hold her hand she says, ‘Don’t touch!’ If I hold her foot she says ‘Don’t touch!’ But when I hold her waist-beads she pretends not to know.
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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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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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