My son even if you want to fall, at least fall where your bones can be gathered.
CHINUA ACHEBEWomen and music should not be dated.
More Chinua Achebe Quotes
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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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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 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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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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The singer should sing well even if it is merely to himself, rather than dance badly for the whole world.
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When mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth
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The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.
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When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.
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When brothers fight to death a stranger inherit their father’s estate.
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Let the kite perch and let the eagle perch too – If one says no to the other, let his wing break.
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What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens – whether people are of a different ethnicity or gender.
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It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is the mark on the face that sets one people apart from their neighbors.
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I think not just Nigeria but I think the whole of Africa has to turn back to the rural areas and that’s where the majority of the citizens are and that’s where the engine of of development has to be found.
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My weapon is literature.
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A goat does not eat into a hen’s stomach no matter how friendly the two may be.
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