Nigeria is what it is because its leaders are not what they should be.
CHINUA ACHEBEWisdom is like a goatskin bag; every man carries his own.
More Chinua Achebe Quotes
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One reason why I am quite angry with what is happening in Nigeria today is that everything has collapsed. If I decide to go back now, there will be so many problems – where will I find the physical therapy and other things that I now require?
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Privilege, you see, is one of the great adversaries of the imagination; it spreads a thick layer of adipose tissue over our sensitivity.
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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 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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There is no story that is not true.
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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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Storytellers are a threat. They threaten all champions of control, they frighten usurpers of the right-to-freedom of the human spirit — in state, in church or mosque, in party congress, in the university or wherever.
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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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Each of my books is different. Deliberately. I wanted to create my society, my people, in their fullness.
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A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.
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Every lizard lies on its belly, so we cannot tell which has a belly-ache
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My weapon is literature.
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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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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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People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.
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