If you don’t like someone’s story, write your own.
CHINUA ACHEBEIt 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.
More Chinua Achebe Quotes
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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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A child cannot pay for its mother’s milk.
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What a man does not know is greater than he.
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The sun will shine on those who stand before it shines on those who kneel under them.
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I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.
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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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Nigeria is what it is because its leaders are not what they should be.
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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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No man however great is greater than his people.
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If you have leaders who are prepared to incite group against group it is very easy to manufacture reasons and excuses.
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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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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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A man who pays respect to the great paves the way for his own greatness
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A goat does not eat into a hen’s stomach no matter how friendly the two may be.
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