An angry man is always a stupid man.
CHINUA ACHEBEWisdom is like a goatskin bag; every man carries his own.
More Chinua Achebe Quotes
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Nobody can teach me who I am.
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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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A man who does not lick his lips, can he blame the harmattan for drying them?
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The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.
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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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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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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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There is a moral obligation, I think, not to ally oneself with power against the powerless.
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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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Whenever you see a toad jumping in broad daylight, then know that something is after its life.
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Procrastination is a lazy man’s apology.
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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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The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use.
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If I hold her hand she says, ‘Don’t touch!’ If I hold her foot she says ‘Don’t touch!’ But when I hold her waist-beads she pretends not to know.
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One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.
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