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Presidents do not go off on l...

Presidents do not go off on leave without telling the country.

Chinua Achebe 248 quotes

A functioning, robust democra...

A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.

Chinua Achebe 248 quotes

The people you see in Nigeria...

The people you see in Nigeria today have always lived as neighbors in the same space for as long as we can remember. So it's a matter of settling down, lowering the rhetoric, the level of hostility in the rhetoric is too high.

Chinua Achebe 248 quotes

As long as one people sit on ...

As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us.

Chinua Achebe 248 quotes

A man who pays respect to the...

A man who pays respect to the great paves the way for his own greatness

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The sun will shine on those w...

The sun will shine on those who stand before it shines on those who kneel under them.

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Nobody can teach me who I am....

Nobody can teach me who I am. You can describe parts of me, but who I am - and what I need - is something I have to find out myself.

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It is the storyteller who mak...

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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We do not seek to hurt any ma...

We do not seek to hurt any man, but if any man seeks to hurt us may he break his neck.

Chinua Achebe 248 quotes

Diversity is not an abnormali...

Diversity is not an abnormality but the very reality of our planet. The human world manifests the same reality and will not seek our permission to celebrate itself in the magnificence of its endless varieties. Civility is a sensible attribute in this kind of world we have; narrowness of heart and mind is not.

Chinua Achebe 248 quotes

We cannot trample upon the hu...

We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own.

Chinua Achebe 248 quotes

When an old man dies, a libra...

When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground.

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A disease that has never been...

A disease that has never been seen before cannot be cured with every-day herbs.

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Man is sitting disconsolate o...

Man is sitting disconsolate on an anthill one morning. God asks him what the matter is and man replies that the soil is too swampy for the cultivation of the yams which God has directed him to grow. God tells him to bring in a blacksmith to dry the soil with his bellows. The contribution of humanity to this creation is so important. God could have made the world perfect if he had wanted. But he made it the way it is. So that there is a constant need for us to discuss and cooperate to make it more habitable, so the soil can yield, you see.

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Literature, whether handed do...

Literature, whether handed down by word or mouth or in print, gives us a second handle on reality.

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Privilege, you see, is one of...

Privilege, you see, is one of the great adversaries of the imagination; it spreads a thick layer of adipose tissue over our sensitivity.

Chinua Achebe 248 quotes

We cannot trample upon the hu...

We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own. The Igbo, always practical, put it concretely in their proverb Onye ji onye n'ani ji onwe ya: 'He who will hold another down in the mud must stay in the mud to keep him down.'

Chinua Achebe 248 quotes

There is that great proverb —...

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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The language of young men is ...

The language of young men is pull down and destroy; but an old man speaks of conciliation.

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Every lizard lies on its bell...

Every lizard lies on its belly, so we cannot tell which has a belly-ache

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