If I hold her hand she says, ‘Don’t touch!’ If I hold her foot she says ‘Don’t touch!’ But when I hold her waist-beads she pretends not to know.
CHINUA ACHEBEThe 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!
More Chinua Achebe Quotes
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My son even if you want to fall, at least fall where your bones can be gathered.
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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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One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.
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The language of young men is pull down and destroy; but an old man speaks of conciliation.
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The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.
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The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.
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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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Literature, whether handed down by word or mouth or in print, gives us a second handle on reality.
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If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all.
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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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When a mad man walks naked, it is his kinsmen who feel shame, not himself.
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People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that’s the time to do something about it, not when it’s around your neck.
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People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.
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Women and music should not be dated.
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He is a fool who treats his brother worse than a stranger.
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