What a man does not know is greater than he.
CHINUA ACHEBEA functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.
More Chinua Achebe Quotes
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If a child washed his hands, he could eat with kings.
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The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use.
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There is no story that is not true.
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When brothers fight to death a stranger inherit their father’s estate.
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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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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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A goat does not eat into a hen’s stomach no matter how friendly the two may be.
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He is a fool who treats his brother worse than a stranger.
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Nobody can teach me who I am.
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A disease that has never been seen before cannot be cured with every-day herbs.
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One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.
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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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Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story even if on the surface it’s far removed from your situation.
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A man who pays respect to the great paves the way for his own greatness
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Only the story can continue beyond the war and the warrior. The story outlives the sound of the war drum… The story is our escort. Without it we are blind… It is the thing that sets us apart from cattle.
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