Every generation must recognize and embrace the task it is peculiarly designed by history and by providence to perform.
CHINUA ACHEBEA man who pays respect to the great paves the way for his own greatness
More Chinua Achebe Quotes
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My weapon is literature.
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Nobody can teach me who I am.
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If you have leaders who are prepared to incite group against group it is very easy to manufacture reasons and excuses.
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If one finger brings oil it soils the others.
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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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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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Whatever music you beat on your drum there is somebody who can dance to it.
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We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own. The Igbo, always practical, put it concretely in their proverb Onye ji onye n’ani ji onwe ya: ‘He who will hold another down in the mud must stay in the mud to keep him down.’
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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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It has always been quite apparent to me that no important story can fail to tell us something of value to us.
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What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens – whether people are of a different ethnicity or gender.
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Now one of the changes that must come to Africa is the idea of limited rule, I mean in term of how long one leader can stay in power. The era of president for life is not gone yet but it is on its way out and that is one of the problems with Mugabe and others.
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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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If you don’t like someone’s story, write your own.
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I think not just Nigeria but I think the whole of Africa has to turn back to the rural areas and that’s where the majority of the citizens are and that’s where the engine of of development has to be found.
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