A goat does not eat into a hen’s stomach no matter how friendly the two may be.
CHINUA ACHEBEA goat does not eat into a hen’s stomach no matter how friendly the two may be.
CHINUA ACHEBEMost 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.
CHINUA ACHEBEA coward may cover the ground with his words but when the time comes to fight he runs away.
CHINUA ACHEBEI don’t like to see mistakes on the typewriter. I like a perfect script. On the typewriter I will sometimes leave a phrase that is not right, not what I want, simply because to change it would be a bit messy.
CHINUA ACHEBEThere is that great proverb – that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.
CHINUA ACHEBEJust think of the work you’ve set yourself to do, and do it as well as you can.
CHINUA ACHEBEAs long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us.
CHINUA ACHEBEWhen I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands.
CHINUA ACHEBEIf one finger brings oil it soils the others.
CHINUA ACHEBEA child cannot pay for its mother’s milk.
CHINUA ACHEBEPeople go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they fail to see what is there in front of them.
CHINUA ACHEBEPrivilege, you see, is one of the great adversaries of the imagination; it spreads a thick layer of adipose tissue over our sensitivity.
CHINUA ACHEBEMy son even if you want to fall, at least fall where your bones can be gathered.
CHINUA ACHEBEThe 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.
CHINUA ACHEBEWe cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own.
CHINUA ACHEBEA functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.
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