A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.
CHINUA ACHEBEWhen brothers fight to death a stranger inherit their father’s estate.
More Chinua Achebe Quotes
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No matter how prosperous a man was, if he was unable to rule his women and his children (and especially his women) he was not really a man.
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When a coward sees a man he can beat he becomes hungry for a fight.
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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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The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use.
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We 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.
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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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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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A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.
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As a rule I don’t like suffering to no purpose. Suffering should be creative, should give birth to something good and lovely.
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People go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they fail to see what is there in front of them.
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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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When a man is at peace with his gods and ancestors, his harvest will be good or bad according to the strength of his arm.
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A disease that has never been seen before cannot be cured with every-day herbs.
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What a man does not know is greater than he.
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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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