Charity is the opium of the privileged.
CHINUA ACHEBEMy son even if you want to fall, at least fall where your bones can be gathered.
More Chinua Achebe Quotes
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When we are comfortable and inattentive, we run the risk of committing grave injustices absentmindedly.
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Whenever you see a toad jumping in broad daylight, then know that something is after its life.
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People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.
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There is that great proverb – that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.
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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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Dancing is very important nowadays. No girl will look at you if you can’t dance.
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When brothers fight to death a stranger inherit their father’s estate.
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There is a moral obligation, I think, not to ally oneself with power against the powerless.
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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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A debt may get mouldy, but it never decays.
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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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No man however great is greater than his people.
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There is no story that is not true.
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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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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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