You do not know me,’ said Tortoise. ‘I am a changed man. I have learned that a man who makes trouble for others makes trouble for himself.
CHINUA ACHEBEWhen a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don’t just turn it off one day.
More Chinua Achebe Quotes
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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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Every generation must recognize and embrace the task it is peculiarly designed by history and by providence to perform.
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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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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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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 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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Among the Igbo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten.
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When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don’t just turn it off one day.
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The man that brings ant-infested faggots into his hut should not grumble when lizards begin to pay him a visit.
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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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People 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.
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One reason why I am quite angry with what is happening in Nigeria today is that everything has collapsed. If I decide to go back now, there will be so many problems – where will I find the physical therapy and other things that I now require?
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Whenever you see a toad jumping in broad daylight, then know that something is after its life.
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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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There is nothing to fear from someone who shouts.
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