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.
CHINUA ACHEBEWhen suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.
More Chinua Achebe Quotes
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When a coward sees a man he can beat he becomes hungry for a fight.
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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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Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story even if on the surface it’s far removed from your situation.
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In dealing with a man who thinks you are a fool, it is good sometimes to remind him that you know what he knows but have chosen to appear foolish for the sake of peace.
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If a child washed his hands, he could eat with kings.
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When we are comfortable and inattentive, we run the risk of committing grave injustices absentmindedly.
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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 debt may get mouldy, but it never decays.
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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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The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.
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It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is the mark on the face that sets one people apart from their neighbors.
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There is nothing to fear from someone who shouts.
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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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