There is that great proverb – that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.
CHINUA ACHEBEIf you have leaders who are prepared to incite group against group it is very easy to manufacture reasons and excuses.
More Chinua Achebe Quotes
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Most writers who are beginners, if they are honest with themselves, will admit that they are praying for a readership as they begin to write. But it should be the quality of the craft, not the audience, that should be the greatest motivating factor.
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One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.
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If you don’t like someone’s story, write your own.
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Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story even if on the surface it’s far removed from your situation.
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If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all.
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Nobody can teach me who I am.
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When a mad man walks naked, it is his kinsmen who feel shame, not himself.
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We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own.
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Every generation must recognize and embrace the task it is peculiarly designed by history and by providence to perform.
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He is a fool who treats his brother worse than a stranger.
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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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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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Nigeria is what it is because its leaders are not what they should be.
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One reason why I am quite angry with what is happening in Nigeria today is that everything has collapsed. If I decide to go back now, there will be so many problems – where will I find the physical therapy and other things that I now require?
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The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.
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