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.
CHINUA ACHEBEOne of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.
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I am against people reaping where they have not sown. But we have a saying that if you want to eat a toad you should look for a fat and juicy one.
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The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.
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Wisdom is like a goatskin bag; every man carries his own.
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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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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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When mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth
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Literature, whether handed down by word or mouth or in print, gives us a second handle on reality.
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My weapon is literature.
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We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own. The Igbo, always practical, put it concretely in their proverb Onye ji onye n’ani ji onwe ya: ‘He who will hold another down in the mud must stay in the mud to keep him down.’
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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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Nigeria is what it is because its leaders are not what they should be.
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An angry man is always a stupid man.
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If you don’t like someone’s story, write your own. If you don’t like what somebody says, say what it is you don’t like.
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As a rule I don’t like suffering to no purpose. Suffering should be creative, should give birth to something good and lovely.
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Dancing is very important nowadays. No girl will look at you if you can’t dance.
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