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Whatever music you beat on your drum there is somebody who can dance to it.

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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I have so many ideas there are so many things that need to be done, so many possibilities, you know one is terribly excited, but at the same time, you're almost confused, because you don't know where to begin.
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The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end. If you are not careful you could replace a bad government with one much worse!
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The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad light and Africans in very lurid terms. The reason for this had to do with the need to justify the slave trade and slavery.
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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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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 I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands.
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Living fire begets cold, impotent ash.
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When a new saying gets to the land of empty men, they lose their heads over it.
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A pen on paper is the ideal way for me. I am not really very comfortable with machines I never learned to type very well.
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I think the language that we use in dealing with one another is very important. And even if I am called upon to bring out some money to support a regime, and I am entitled to say I do not like what that regime does and obviously I am not going to put money there - you cannot really say this is wrong or this is unreasonable.
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No man however great is greater than his people
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I'm very primitive I write with a pen.
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Whenever I try to do anything on a typewriter, it's like having this machine between me and the words what comes out is not quite what would come out if I were scribbling.
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You might as well say that the woman lies on top of the man when they are making the babies.
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Wisdom is like a goatskin bag every man carries his own.
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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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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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I think once you have done all you can to a manuscript, let it find its way in the world.
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When a mad man walks naked, it is his kinsmen who feel shame, not himself.
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Africa is people may seem too simple and too obvious to some of us. But I have found in the course of my travels through the world that the most simple things can still givwe us a lot of trouble, even the brightest among us: this is particularly so in matters concerning Africa.
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