Charity is the opium of the privileged.
CHINUA ACHEBEThere is nothing to fear from someone who shouts.
More Chinua Achebe Quotes
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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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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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The language of young men is pull down and destroy; but an old man speaks of conciliation.
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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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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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A goat does not eat into a hen’s stomach no matter how friendly the two may be.
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People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.
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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.
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Dancing is very important nowadays. No girl will look at you if you can’t dance.
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The impatient idealist says: ‘Give me a place to stand and I shall move the earth.’ But such a place does not exist. We all have to stand on the earth itself and go with her at her pace.
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If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all.
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When a man is at peace with his gods and ancestors, his harvest will be good or bad according to the strength of his arm.
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When we are comfortable and inattentive, we run the risk of committing grave injustices absentmindedly.
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The man that brings ant-infested faggots into his hut should not grumble when lizards begin to pay him a visit.
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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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