Every generation must recognize and embrace the task it is peculiarly designed by history and by providence to perform.
CHINUA ACHEBEThe damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.
More Chinua Achebe Quotes
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The language of young men is pull down and destroy; but an old man speaks of conciliation.
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A man who does not lick his lips, can he blame the harmattan for drying them?
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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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Wisdom is like a goatskin bag; every man carries his own.
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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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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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If you don’t like someone’s story, write your own.
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Do not be in a hurry to rush into the pleasures of the world like the young antelope who danced herself lame when the main dance was yet to come.
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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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The lizard that jumped from a high Iroko tree to the ground said he would praise himself if no-one else did.
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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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When we are comfortable and inattentive, we run the risk of committing grave injustices absentmindedly.
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A child cannot pay for its mother’s milk.
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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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