A child cannot pay for its mother’s milk.
CHINUA ACHEBEMy weapon is literature.
More Chinua Achebe Quotes
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A debt may get mouldy, but it never decays.
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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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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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It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is the mark on the face that sets one people apart from their neighbors.
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Procrastination is a lazy man’s apology.
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It is praiseworthy to be brave and fearless, but sometimes it is better to be a coward. We often stand in the compound of a coward to point at the ruins where a brave man used to live.
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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 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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When brothers fight to death a stranger inherit their father’s estate.
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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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While we do our good works let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.
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Just think of the work you’ve set yourself to do, and do it as well as you can.
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There is nothing to fear from someone who shouts.
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A coward may cover the ground with his words but when the time comes to fight he runs away.
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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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