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.
CHINUA ACHEBEThe price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use.
More Chinua Achebe Quotes
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A man who does not lick his lips, can he blame the harmattan for drying them?
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Procrastination is a lazy man’s apology.
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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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I am against people reaping where they have not sown. But we have a saying that if you want to eat a toad you should look for a fat and juicy one.
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An 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.
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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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One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.
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A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.
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Whatever music you beat on your drum there is somebody who can dance to it.
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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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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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If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all.
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In dealing with a man who thinks you are a fool, it is good sometimes to remind him that you know what he knows but have chosen to appear foolish for the sake of peace.
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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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