"A man who does not lick his lips,……" — Chinua Achebe

"A man who does not lick his lips, can he blame the harmattan for drying them?"

— Chinua Achebe

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162 Quotes by Chinua Achebe

Chinua Achebe has 162 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.
When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to…
When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we…
People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it,…
I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you.…
A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.
The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.
Oh, the most important thing about myself is that my life has been full of changes. Therefore, when I observe…
What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens - whether people are of a different…
Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to…
The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end.…
Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and…

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More Blame Quotes

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I try to live my life where I end up at a point where I have no regrets. So I… — Darren Aronofsky
You can't live your life blaming your failures on your parents and what they did or didn't do for you.… — Drew Barrymore
Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures. — Bernard Baruch
Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results. — Scott Adams
There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet. — Samuel Beckett
The Marxist analysis has got nothing to do with what happened in Stalin's Russia: it's like blaming Jesus Christ for… — Tony Benn
I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change… — Yogi Berra
I don't blame the players today for the money. I blame the owners. They started it. They wanna give it… — Yogi Berra
Everyone's quick to blame the alien. — Aeschylus
One day I realized that I wasn't getting anywhere by blaming other people for my circumstances. I finally understood: Even… — Mary J. Blige
If a hurricane strikes, we can blame the president for not being there; we can blame Congress and FEMA; we… — Michael Bloomberg
It's not natural disasters that are to blame for the deprivation of the North Korean people, but the failed policies… — John Bolton

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