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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
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Philosopher
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Albert Chinualumogu Achebe
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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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The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.
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A man's life from birth to death was a series of transition rites which brought him nearer and nearer to his ancestors.
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The language of young men is pull down and destroy but an old man speaks of conciliation.
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Joseph Conrad was a thoroughgoing racist. That this simple truth is glossed over in criticisms of his work is due to the fact that white racism against Africa is such a normal way of thinking that its manifestations go completely unremarked.
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Wisdom is like a goatskin bag every man carries his own.
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Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.
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A kinsman in trouble had to be saved, not blamed anger against a brother was felt in the flesh, not in the bone.
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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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When a man is at peace with his gods and ancestors, his harvest will be good or bad according to the strength of his arm.
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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 feel that the English language will be able to carry the weight of my African experience. But it will have to be a new English, still in full communion with its ancestral home but altered to suit new African surroundings.
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If a child washed his hands, he could eat with kings.
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There's no lack of writers writing novels in America, about America. Therefore, it seems to me it would be wasteful for me to add to that huge number of people writing here when there are so few people writing about somewhere else.
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There was a saying in Umuofia that as a man danced so the drums were beaten for him.
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When brothers fight to death a stranger inherit their father’s estate
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No man however great is greater than his people
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After a war life catches desperately at passing hints of normalcy like vines entwining a hollow twig.
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Men have learned to shoot without missing their mark and I have learned to fly without perching on a twig.
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And theories are no more than fictions which help us to make sense of experience and which are subject to disconfirmation when their explanations are no longer adequate.
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