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Africa is to Europe as the picture is to Dorian Gray-a carrier onto whom the master unloads his physical & moral deformities
Chinua Achebe
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Chinua Achebe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1930
Born: November 16
Died: 2013
Died: March 22
Essayist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Philosopher
Poet
Short Story Writer
University Teacher
Writer
Albert Chinualumogu Achebe
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The sun will shine on those who stand before it shines on those who kneel under them.
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I 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.
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[Would] a sensible man spit out the juicy morsel that good fortune put in his mouth?
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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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He is a fool who treats his brother worse than a stranger.
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A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.
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Anybody who wants to rule a group will find that if this group is quarreling among themselves they leave you alone.
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I was a supporter of the desire, in my section of Nigeria, to leave the federation because it was treated very badly with something that was called genocide in those days.
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