The singer should sing well even if it is merely to himself, rather than dance badly for the whole world.
CHINUA ACHEBENobody can teach me who I am.
More Chinua Achebe Quotes
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When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground.
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If one finger brings oil it soils the others.
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Every lizard lies on its belly, so we cannot tell which has a belly-ache
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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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Dancing is very important nowadays. No girl will look at you if you can’t dance.
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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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There is a moral obligation, I think, not to ally oneself with power against the powerless.
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Literature, whether handed down by word or mouth or in print, gives us a second handle on reality.
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A debt may get mouldy, but it never decays.
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What a man does not know is greater than he.
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I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.
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A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.
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Women and music should not be dated.
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When a mad man walks naked, it is his kinsmen who feel shame, not himself.
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Do not be in a hurry to rush into the pleasures of the world like the young antelope who danced herself lame when the main dance was yet to come.
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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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Most writers who are beginners, if they are honest with themselves, will admit that they are praying for a readership as they begin to write. But it should be the quality of the craft, not the audience, that should be the greatest motivating factor.
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A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.
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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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Every generation must recognize and embrace the task it is peculiarly designed by history and by providence to perform.
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Charity is the opium of the privileged.
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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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Nobody can teach me who I am.
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There is no story that is not true.
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Just think of the work you’ve set yourself to do, and do it as well as you can.
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My son even if you want to fall, at least fall where your bones can be gathered.
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