When a coward sees a man he can beat he becomes hungry for a fight.
CHINUA ACHEBEWhat a man does not know is greater than he.
More Chinua Achebe Quotes
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Every generation must find its mission and fulfill it, as Fanon said – or betray it. So it is not something that you can write up on the wall, saying this is what has to be done. Every generation has to discover what it needs to do.
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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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A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.
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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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Nobody can teach me who I am.
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My weapon is literature.
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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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As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us.
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The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don’t always know what you get at the other end. If you are not careful you could replace a bad government with one much worse!
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An angry man is always a stupid man.
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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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We do not seek to hurt any man, but if any man seeks to hurt us may he break his neck.
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It has always been quite apparent to me that no important story can fail to tell us something of value to us.
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Women and music should not be dated.
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There is no story that is not true.
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