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It is only the story...that s...

It is only the story...that saves our progeny from blundering like blind beggars into the spikes of the cactus fence.The story is our escort;without it,we are blind.Does the blind man own his escort?No,neither do we the story;rather,it is the story that owns us.

Chinua Achebe 248 quotes

My son even if you want to fa...

My son even if you want to fall, at least fall where your bones can be gathered

Chinua Achebe 248 quotes

If you don't like someone's s...

If you don't like someone's story, write your own. If you don't like what somebody says, say what it is you don't like.

Chinua Achebe 248 quotes

It is the story that owns and...

It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is the mark on the face that sets one people apart from their neighbors.

Chinua Achebe 248 quotes

The reality of today, differe...

The reality of today, different as it is from the reality of my society one hundred years ago, is and can be important if we have the energy and the inclination to challenge it, to go out and engage with its peculiarities, with the things that we do not understand. The real danger is the tendency to retreat into the obvious, the tendency to be frightened by the richness of the world and to clutch what we always have understood.

Chinua Achebe 248 quotes

Women and music should not be...

Women and music should not be dated.

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We shall all live. We pray fo...

We shall all live. We pray for life, children, a good harvest and happiness. You will have what is good for you and I will have what is good for me. Let the kite perch and let the egret perch too. If one says no to the other, let his wing break.

Chinua Achebe 248 quotes

Let the kite perch and let th...

Let the kite perch and let the eagle perch too – If one says no to the other, let his wing break.

Chinua Achebe 248 quotes

People go to Africa and confi...

People go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they fail to see what is there in front of them.

Chinua Achebe 248 quotes

When mother-cow is chewing gr...

When mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth

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A man who calls his kinsmen t...

A man who calls his kinsmen to a feast does not do so to save them from starving. They all have food in their own homes. When we gather together in the moonlit village ground it is not because of the moon. Every man can see it in his own compound. We come together because it is good for kinsmen to do so.

Chinua Achebe 248 quotes

While we do our good works le...

While we do our good works let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.

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There is nothing to fear from...

There is nothing to fear from someone who shouts.

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There is a moral obligation, ...

There is a moral obligation, I think, not to ally oneself with power against the powerless.

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As a rule I don't like suffer...

As a rule I don't like suffering to no purpose. Suffering should be creative, should give birth to something good and lovely.

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Whatever music you beat on yo...

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

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You do not know me,’ said Tor...

You do not know me,’ said Tortoise. ‘I am a changed man. I have learned that a man who makes trouble for others makes trouble for himself.

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People go to Africa and confi...

People go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they fail to see what is there in front of them. This is what people have come to expect. Its not viewed as a serious continent. Its a place of strange, bizarre and illogical things, where people dont do what common sense demands.

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Most writers who are beginner...

Most writers who are beginners, if they are honest with themselves, will admit that they are praying for a readership as they begin to write. But it should be the quality of the craft, not the audience, that should be the greatest motivating factor.

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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. That did not come to me until much later. Once I realized that, I had to be a writer. I had to be that historian. It's not one man's job. It's not one person's job. But it is something we have to do, so that the story of the hunt will also reflect the agony, the travail - the bravery, even, of the lions.

Chinua Achebe 248 quotes

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