"If you don't like someone's story, write your…" — Chinua Achebe
"If you don't like someone's story, write your own."
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162 Quotes by Chinua Achebe
Chinua Achebe has 162 quotes on this site.
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One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.
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When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to…
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When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we…
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People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it,…
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I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you.…
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A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.
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The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.
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Oh, the most important thing about myself is that my life has been full of changes. Therefore, when I observe…
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What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens - whether people are of a different…
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Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to…
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The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end.…
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Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and…
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Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in…
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I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let…
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Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
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Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode…
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The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil…
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I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and…
— Paul Auster
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I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary…
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Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a…
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I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard.
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I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own.
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We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense…
— Karen Armstrong
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And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief…
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