There is that great proverb – that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.
CHINUA ACHEBEAn artist in my view is always afraid of extremists; he is always afraid of those who claim to have found the ultimate solution to any question.
More Chinua Achebe Quotes
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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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When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.
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A goat does not eat into a hen’s stomach no matter how friendly the two may be.
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Africa is to Europe as the picture is to Dorian Gray-a carrier onto whom the master unloads his physical & moral deformities.
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Among the Igbo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten.
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If a child washed his hands, he could eat with kings.
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When we are comfortable and inattentive, we run the risk of committing grave injustices absentmindedly.
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The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.
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There is no story that is not true.
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What a man does not know is greater than he.
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There is a moral obligation, I think, not to ally oneself with power against the powerless.
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Charity is the opium of the privileged.
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No man however great is greater than his people.
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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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While we do our good works let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.
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