A debt may get mouldy, but it never decays.
CHINUA ACHEBEA man who pays respect to the great paves the way for his own greatness
More Chinua Achebe Quotes
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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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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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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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As a rule I don’t like suffering to no purpose. Suffering should be creative, should give birth to something good and lovely.
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The lizard that jumped from a high Iroko tree to the ground said he would praise himself if no-one else did.
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The singer should sing well even if it is merely to himself, rather than dance badly for the whole world.
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There is no story that is not true.
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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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There is that great proverb – that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.
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When a coward sees a man he can beat he becomes hungry for a fight.
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Become familiar with your home, but know also about your neighbors. The young man who never went anywhere thinks his mother is the greatest cook.
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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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Only the story can continue beyond the war and the warrior. The story outlives the sound of the war drum… The story is our escort. Without it we are blind… It is the thing that sets us apart from cattle.
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My weapon is literature.
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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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