Privilege, you see, is one of the great adversaries of the imagination; it spreads a thick layer of adipose tissue over our sensitivity.
CHINUA ACHEBEThe singer should sing well even if it is merely to himself, rather than dance badly for the whole world.
More Chinua Achebe Quotes
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When a mad man walks naked, it is his kinsmen who feel shame, not himself.
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Wisdom is like a goatskin bag; every man carries his own.
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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 man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.
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When a coward sees a man he can beat he becomes hungry for a fight.
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People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.
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The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.
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Whatever music you beat on your drum there is somebody who can dance to it.
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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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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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When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don’t just turn it off one day.
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Art is man’s constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.
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I don’t like to see mistakes on the typewriter. I like a perfect script. On the typewriter I will sometimes leave a phrase that is not right, not what I want, simply because to change it would be a bit messy.
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I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.
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Every lizard lies on its belly, so we cannot tell which has a belly-ache
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