Women and music should not be dated.
CHINUA ACHEBEProcrastination is a lazy man’s apology.
More Chinua Achebe Quotes
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You do not know me,’ said Tortoise. ‘I am a changed man. I have learned that a man who makes trouble for others makes trouble for himself.
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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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The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.
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An artist in my view is always afraid of extremists; he is always afraid of those who claim to have found the ultimate solution to any question.
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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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When we are comfortable and inattentive, we run the risk of committing grave injustices absentmindedly.
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When a coward sees a man he can beat he becomes hungry for a fight.
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Privilege, you see, is one of the great adversaries of the imagination; it spreads a thick layer of adipose tissue over our sensitivity.
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Every lizard lies on its belly, so we cannot tell which has a belly-ache
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We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own. The Igbo, always practical, put it concretely in their proverb Onye ji onye n’ani ji onwe ya: ‘He who will hold another down in the mud must stay in the mud to keep him down.’
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Literature, whether handed down by word or mouth or in print, gives us a second handle on reality.
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My son even if you want to fall, at least fall where your bones can be gathered.
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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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When a mad man walks naked, it is his kinsmen who feel shame, not himself.
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The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.
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