Dancing is very important nowadays. No girl will look at you if you can’t dance.
CHINUA ACHEBEThe language of young men is pull down and destroy; but an old man speaks of conciliation.
More Chinua Achebe Quotes
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If you don’t like someone’s story, write your own.
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Nobody can teach me who I am.
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When a mad man walks naked, it is his kinsmen who feel shame, not himself.
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Procrastination is a lazy man’s apology.
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Let the kite perch and let the eagle perch too – If one says no to the other, let his wing break.
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There is nothing to fear from someone who shouts.
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A debt may get mouldy, but it never decays.
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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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What a man does not know is greater than he.
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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 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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The impatient idealist says: ‘Give me a place to stand and I shall move the earth.’ But such a place does not exist. We all have to stand on the earth itself and go with her at her pace.
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Literature, whether handed down by word or mouth or in print, gives us a second handle on reality.
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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 man is at peace with his gods and ancestors, his harvest will be good or bad according to the strength of his arm.
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