It is praiseworthy to be brave and fearless, but sometimes it is better to be a coward. We often stand in the compound of a coward to point at the ruins where a brave man used to live.
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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If one finger brings oil it soils the others.
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When we are comfortable and inattentive, we run the risk of committing grave injustices absentmindedly.
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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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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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Just think of the work you’ve set yourself to do, and do it as well as you can.
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Charity is the opium of the privileged.
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A disease that has never been seen before cannot be cured with every-day herbs.
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People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.
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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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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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Whatever music you beat on your drum there is somebody who can dance to it.
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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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One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.
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We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own.
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In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasn’t perhaps completely whole, that something was left out.
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