My son even if you want to fall, at least fall where your bones can be gathered.
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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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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A man who pays respect to the great paves the way for his own greatness
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Whatever music you beat on your drum there is somebody who can dance to it.
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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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He is a fool who treats his brother worse than a stranger.
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Charity is the opium of the privileged.
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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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Let the kite perch and let the eagle perch too – If one says no to the other, let his wing break.
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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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When we are comfortable and inattentive, we run the risk of committing grave injustices absentmindedly.
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The impatient idealist says: ‘Give me a place to stand and I shall move the earth.’ But such a place does not exist. We all have to stand on the earth itself and go with her at her pace.
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It is praiseworthy to be brave and fearless, but sometimes it is better to be a coward. We often stand in the compound of a coward to point at the ruins where a brave man used to live.
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You do not know me,’ said Tortoise. ‘I am a changed man. I have learned that a man who makes trouble for others makes trouble for himself.
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Nobody can teach me who I am. You can describe parts of me, but who I am – and what I need – is something I have to find out myself.
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If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all.
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