People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.
CHINUA ACHEBEThe damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.
More Chinua Achebe Quotes
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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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We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own.
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When a mad man walks naked, it is his kinsmen who feel shame, not himself.
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People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that’s the time to do something about it, not when it’s around your neck.
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Among the Igbo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten.
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An artist in my view is always afraid of extremists; he is always afraid of those who claim to have found the ultimate solution to any question.
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People go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they fail to see what is there in front of them.
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There is that great proverb – that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.
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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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The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use.
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A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.
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When mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth
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My weapon is literature.
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When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground.
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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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