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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.
— Chinua Achebe
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[H]e developed a private philosophy of total self-reliance, an unyielding internal sufficiency that requires no external support from others.
— Chinua Achebe
He who fights for a ne'er-do-well has nothing to show for it except a head covered in earth and grime.
— Chinua Achebe
You must develop the habit of skepticism, not swallow every piece of superstition you are told by witch-doctors and professors.
— Chinua Achebe
The most awful thing about power is not that it corrupts absolutely but that it makes people so utterly boring, so predictable.
— Chinua Achebe
the clock is ticking
— Chinua Achebe
I don't care about age very much. I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.
— Chinua Achebe
He is a fool who treats his brother worse than a stranger.
— Chinua Achebe
An artist in my view is always afraid of extremists; he is always afraid of those who claim to have found the ultimate solution to any question.
— Chinua Achebe
I think writers are not only writers, they are also citizens.
— Chinua Achebe
We do not seek to hurt any man, but if any man seeks to hurt us may he break his neck.
— Chinua Achebe
A proud heart can survive a general failure because such a failure does not prick its pride.
— Chinua Achebe
Fortunately, among these people a man was judged according to his worth and not according to the worth of his father.
— Chinua Achebe
Charity . . . is the opium of the privileged.
— Chinua Achebe
When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.
— Chinua Achebe
There is a moral obligation, I think, not to ally oneself with power against the powerless.
— Chinua Achebe
When mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth
— Chinua Achebe
...Nothing puzzles God
— Chinua Achebe
Those whose kernels were cracked by benevolent spirit should not forget to be humble.
— Chinua Achebe
When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands.
— Chinua Achebe
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
Beware Okonkwo!" she warned. "Beware of exchanging words with Agbala. Does a man speak when a god speaks? Beware!
— Chinua Achebe
Among the Igbo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten.
— Chinua Achebe
People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.
— Chinua Achebe
The sun will shine on those who stand, before it shines on those who kneel under them.
— Chinua Achebe
What a man does not know is greater than he.
— Chinua Achebe
Real tragedy is never resolved. It goes on hopelessly for ever.
— Chinua Achebe
Presidents do not go off on leave without telling the country.
— Chinua Achebe
There is no story that is not true.
— Chinua Achebe
She pouted her lips like a gun in my face.
— Chinua Achebe
An angry man is always a stupid man.
— Chinua Achebe
A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.
— Chinua Achebe
No matter how prosperous a man was, if he was unable to rule his women and his children (and especially his women) he was not really a man.
— Chinua Achebe
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.
— Chinua Achebe
Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.
— Chinua Achebe
Writers don't give prescriptions. They give headaches!
— Chinua Achebe
Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.
— Chinua Achebe
Ghana and Nigeria resented each other and competed for supremacy in every sphere - politics, academia, sports, you name it.
— Chinua Achebe
When the moon is shining the cripple becomes hungry for a walk
— Chinua Achebe
A man's life from birth to death was a series of transition rites which brought him nearer and nearer to his ancestors.
— Chinua Achebe
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
Men have learned to shoot without missing their mark and I have learned to fly without perching on a twig.
— Chinua Achebe
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[Would] a sensible man spit out the juicy morsel that good fortune put in his mouth?
— Chinua Achebe
The Igbo culture says no condition is permanent. There is constant change in the world.
— Chinua Achebe
An artist, in my understanding of the word, should side with the people against the Emperor that oppresses his or her people.
— Chinua Achebe
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.
— Chinua Achebe
When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day.
— Chinua Achebe
Procrastination is a lazy man's apology.
— Chinua Achebe
A child cannot pay for its mother's milk.
— Chinua Achebe
The man that brings ant-infested faggots into his hut should not grumble when lizards begin to pay him a visit.
— Chinua Achebe
Americans, it seems to me, tend to protect their children from the harshness of life, in their interest.
— Chinua Achebe
There is nothing to fear from someone who shouts.
— Chinua Achebe
Wisdom is like a goatskin bag; every man carries his own.
— Chinua Achebe
A snake was never called by its name at night, because it would hear. It was called a string.
— Chinua Achebe
A debt may get mouldy, but it never decays.
— Chinua Achebe
Literature, whether handed down by word or mouth or in print, gives us a second handle on reality.
— Chinua Achebe
Among the Ibo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten. Okoye
— Chinua Achebe
My weapon is literature— Chinua Achebe
Stories are not always innocent; ... they can be used to put you in the wrong crowd, in the party of the man who has come to dispossess you.
— Chinua Achebe
Whenever you see a toad jumping in broad daylight, then know that something is after its life.
— Chinua Achebe
Age was respected among his people, but achievement was revered. As the elders said, if a child washed his hands he could eat with kings.
— Chinua Achebe
Each of my books is different. Deliberately ... I wanted to create my society, my people, in their fullness.
— Chinua Achebe
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.
— Chinua Achebe
If one finger brings oil it soils the others.
— Chinua Achebe
Looking at a king's mouth, ' said an old man, 'one would think he never sucked at his mother's breast.
— Chinua Achebe
A toad does not run in the daytime for nothing
— Chinua Achebe
Africa is to Europe as the picture is to Dorian Gray-a carrier onto whom the master unloads his physical & moral deformities
— Chinua Achebe
That we are surrounded by deep mysteries is known to all but the incurably ignorant.
— Chinua Achebe
A kinsman in trouble had to be saved, not blamed; anger against a brother was felt in the flesh, not in the bone.
— Chinua Achebe
Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively.
— Chinua Achebe
When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.
— Chinua Achebe
To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.
— Chinua Achebe
No man however great is greater than his people
— Chinua Achebe
I don't care about age very much.
— Chinua Achebe
