A disease that has never been seen before cannot be cured with every-day herbs.
CHINUA ACHEBENobody can teach me who I am.
More Chinua Achebe Quotes
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When brothers fight to death a stranger inherit their father’s estate.
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The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.
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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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The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.
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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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Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story even if on the surface it’s far removed from your situation.
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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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It is praiseworthy to be brave and fearless, but sometimes it is better to be a coward. We often stand in the compound of a coward to point at the ruins where a brave man used to live.
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Whatever music you beat on your drum there is somebody who can dance to it.
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Each of my books is different. Deliberately. I wanted to create my society, my people, in their fullness.
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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 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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It is the storyteller who makes us what we are, who creates history. The storyteller creates the memory that the survivors must have – otherwise their surviving would have no meaning.
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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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If you don’t like someone’s story, write your own.
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