Nobody can teach me who I am.
CHINUA ACHEBEProcrastination is a lazy man’s apology.
More Chinua Achebe Quotes
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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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Dancing is very important nowadays. No girl will look at you if you can’t dance.
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A man who does not lick his lips, can he blame the harmattan for drying them?
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When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.
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If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all.
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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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Become familiar with your home, but know also about your neighbors. The young man who never went anywhere thinks his mother is the greatest cook.
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There is a moral obligation, I think, not to ally oneself with power against the powerless.
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If you have leaders who are prepared to incite group against group it is very easy to manufacture reasons and excuses.
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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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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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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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Now one of the changes that must come to Africa is the idea of limited rule, I mean in term of how long one leader can stay in power. The era of president for life is not gone yet but it is on its way out and that is one of the problems with Mugabe and others.
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A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.
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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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