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Say Quotes by 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…
- People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it, not when it's around your…
- 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.
- In such a regime, I say, you died a good death if your life had inspired someone to come forward and shoot your murderer in…
- I believe in the complexity of the human story, and that there's no way you can tell that story in one way and say, 'this…
- You might as well say that the woman lies on top of the man when they are making the babies.
- A man to whom you do a favor will not understand if you say nothing, make no noise, just walk away. You may cause more…
- They say a man is like a funeral ram which must take whatever beating comes to it without opening its mouth; only the silent tremor…
- At the most one could say that his chi or ... personal god was good. But the Ibo people have a proverb that when a…
- The world is large,” said Okonkwo. “I have even heard that in some tribes a man’s children belong to his wife and her family.” “That…
- What I can say is that it was clear to many of us that an indigenous African literary renaissance was overdue. A major objective was…
- Some people flinch when you talk about art in the context of the needs of society thinking you are introducing something far too common for…
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