I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.
CHINUA ACHEBEMy weapon is literature.
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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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When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.
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There is nothing to fear from someone who shouts.
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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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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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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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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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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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When brothers fight to death a stranger inherit their father’s estate.
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Wisdom is like a goatskin bag; every man carries his own.
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Africa is to Europe as the picture is to Dorian Gray-a carrier onto whom the master unloads his physical & moral deformities.
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A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.
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Nobody can teach me who I am. You can describe parts of me, but who I am – and what I need – is something I have to find out myself.
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Charity is the opium of the privileged.
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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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