The language of young men is pull down and destroy; but an old man speaks of conciliation.
CHINUA ACHEBEA man who pays respect to the great paves the way for his own greatness
More Chinua Achebe Quotes
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There is no story that is not true.
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We do not seek to hurt any man, but if any man seeks to hurt us may he break his neck.
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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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A man who does not lick his lips, can he blame the harmattan for drying them?
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When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground.
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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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People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that’s the time to do something about it, not when it’s around your neck.
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The impatient idealist says: ‘Give me a place to stand and I shall move the earth.’ But such a place does not exist. We all have to stand on the earth itself and go with her at her pace.
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Privilege, you see, is one of the great adversaries of the imagination; it spreads a thick layer of adipose tissue over our sensitivity.
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If you don’t like someone’s story, write your own. If you don’t like what somebody says, say what it is you don’t like.
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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 who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.
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Storytellers are a threat. They threaten all champions of control, they frighten usurpers of the right-to-freedom of the human spirit — in state, in church or mosque, in party congress, in the university or wherever.
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The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.
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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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