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Chinua Achebe Inspirational Quotes (162)

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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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If you have leaders who are prepared to incite group against group it is very easy to manufacture reasons and excuses.
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Serious and good art has always existed to help, to serve, humanity. Not to indict.
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There is no story that is not true, [...] The world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abomination with others.
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When the moon is shining the cripple becomes hungry for a walk
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The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.
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The writer is often faced with two choices--turn away from the reality of life's intimidating complexity or conquer its mystery by battling with it. The writer who chooses the former soon runs out of energy and produces elegantly tired fiction.
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He is a fool who treats his brother worse than a stranger.
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What a man does not know is greater than he.
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When mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth
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When Rimbaud became a slave trader, he stopped writing poetry.
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Now one of the changes that must come to Africa is the idea of limited rule, I mean in term of how long one leader can stay in power. The era of president for life is not gone yet but it is on its way out and that is one of the problems with Mugabe and others.
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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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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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A child cannot pay for its mother’s milk.
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I couldn't tell you why but now I know a story is in fact where you discover who you are, where a culture discovers what it is and I just think that this is a terribly important place to get into and that I would enjoy it.
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I am against people reaping where they have not sown. But we have a saying that if you want to eat a toad you should look for a fat and juicy one.
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A man to whom you do a favor will not understand if you say nothing, make no noise, just walk away. You may cause more trouble by refusing a bribe than by accepting it.
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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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Once you have really done all you can, then you can show it to people. But I find this is increasingly not the case with the younger people. They do a first draft and want somebody to finish it off for them with good advice.
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There is that great proverb — that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.
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Dancing is very important nowadays. No girl will look at you if you can't dance.
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A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.
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I'm sure if one turned one's mind back from grandiose faults to what is happening to the average man or woman or child in the rural areas, we will probably find that's where the energy for development is.
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