Do not be in a hurry to rush into the pleasures of the world like the young antelope who danced herself lame when the main dance was yet to come.
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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The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.
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Dancing is very important nowadays. No girl will look at you if you can’t dance.
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If you don’t like someone’s story, write your own.
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Procrastination is a lazy man’s apology.
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Nobody can teach me who I am.
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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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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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Charity is the opium of the privileged.
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Among the Igbo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten.
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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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Each of my books is different. Deliberately. I wanted to create my society, my people, in their fullness.
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A child cannot pay for its mother’s milk.
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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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Every generation must recognize and embrace the task it is peculiarly designed by history and by providence to perform.
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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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