A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.
CHINUA ACHEBEHe is a fool who treats his brother worse than a stranger.
More Chinua Achebe Quotes
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There is no story that is not true.
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The world is large,” said Okonkwo. “I have even heard that in some tribes a man’s children belong to his wife and her family.” “That cannot be,” said Machi. “You might as well say that the woman lies on top of the man when they are making the babies.
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Nobody can teach me who I am.
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The language of young men is pull down and destroy; but an old man speaks of conciliation.
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If I hold her hand she says, ‘Don’t touch!’ If I hold her foot she says ‘Don’t touch!’ But when I hold her waist-beads she pretends not to know.
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My weapon is literature.
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When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground.
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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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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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I prefer to go on trying all kinds of things, not to be told, This is the way it is done.
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We shall all live. We pray for life, children, a good harvest and happiness. You will have what is good for you and I will have what is good for me. Let the kite perch and let the egret perch too. If one says no to the other, let his wing break.
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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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When mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth
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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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A coward may cover the ground with his words but when the time comes to fight he runs away.
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