When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don’t just turn it off one day.
CHINUA ACHEBEMy weapon is literature.
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No matter how prosperous a man was, if he was unable to rule his women and his children (and especially his women) he was not really a man.
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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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Every generation must recognize and embrace the task it is peculiarly designed by history and by providence to perform.
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Nigeria is what it is because its leaders are not what they should be.
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My weapon is literature.
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Procrastination is a lazy man’s apology.
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Women and music should not be dated.
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What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens – whether people are of a different ethnicity or gender.
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My son even if you want to fall, at least fall where your bones can be gathered.
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Whenever you see a toad jumping in broad daylight, then know that something is after its life.
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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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We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own. The Igbo, always practical, put it concretely in their proverb Onye ji onye n’ani ji onwe ya: ‘He who will hold another down in the mud must stay in the mud to keep him down.’
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The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.
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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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In dealing with a man who thinks you are a fool, it is good sometimes to remind him that you know what he knows but have chosen to appear foolish for the sake of peace.
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A goat does not eat into a hen’s stomach no matter how friendly the two may be.
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There is no story that is not true.
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What a man does not know is greater than he.
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If you have leaders who are prepared to incite group against group it is very easy to manufacture reasons and excuses.
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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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If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all.
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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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When a coward sees a man he can beat he becomes hungry for a fight.
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Become familiar with your home, but know also about your neighbors. The young man who never went anywhere thinks his mother is the greatest cook.
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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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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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