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.
CHINUA ACHEBEEvery 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.
CHINUA ACHEBEWe do not seek to hurt any man, but if any man seeks to hurt us may he break his neck.
CHINUA ACHEBEWhen brothers fight to death a stranger inherit their father’s estate.
CHINUA ACHEBEThe language of young men is pull down and destroy; but an old man speaks of conciliation.
CHINUA ACHEBEWhen 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.
CHINUA ACHEBEAnd theories are no more than fictions which help us to make sense of experience and which are subject to disconfirmation when their explanations are no longer adequate.
CHINUA ACHEBEI think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.
CHINUA ACHEBEIn 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.
CHINUA ACHEBEWe shall all live. We pray for life, children, a good harvest and happiness. You will have what is good for you and I will have what is good for me. Let the kite perch and let the egret perch too. If one says no to the other, let his wing break.
CHINUA ACHEBELet the kite perch and let the eagle perch too – If one says no to the other, let his wing break.
CHINUA ACHEBEWisdom is like a goatskin bag; every man carries his own.
CHINUA ACHEBEThe damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.
CHINUA ACHEBEA coward may cover the ground with his words but when the time comes to fight he runs away.
CHINUA ACHEBEA disease that has never been seen before cannot be cured with every-day herbs.
CHINUA ACHEBEA man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.
CHINUA ACHEBEWhen a mad man walks naked, it is his kinsmen who feel shame, not himself.
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