The man that brings ant-infested faggots into his hut should not grumble when lizards begin to pay him a visit.
CHINUA ACHEBEA man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.
More Chinua Achebe Quotes
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If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all.
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The world is large,” said Okonkwo. “I have even heard that in some tribes a man’s children belong to his wife and her family.” “That cannot be,” said Machi. “You might as well say that the woman lies on top of the man when they are making the babies.
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What a man does not know is greater than he.
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When a coward sees a man he can beat he becomes hungry for a fight.
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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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When mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth
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There is nothing to fear from someone who shouts.
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A coward may cover the ground with his words but when the time comes to fight he runs away.
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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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The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don’t always know what you get at the other end. If you are not careful you could replace a bad government with one much worse!
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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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My weapon is literature.
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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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When a mad man walks naked, it is his kinsmen who feel shame, not himself.
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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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