"The world is like a Mask dancing. If……" — Chinua Achebe

The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see… - Chinua Achebe

"The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place."

— 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 Dancing Quotes

This quote is filed under Dancing Quotes, one of 1,698 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day. — Karen Armstrong
The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of… — Fred Astaire
Mathematics was hard, dull work. Geography pleased me more. For dancing I was quite enthusiastic. — John James Audubon
The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing. — Marcus Aurelius
To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love. — Jane Austen
Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. — Dave Barry
I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
To achieve some depth in your field requires a lot of sacrifices. Want to or not, you're thinking about what… — Mikhail Baryshnikov
Dancing is my obsession. My life. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human… — Charles Baudelaire
At male strip shows, it is still the women that we watch, the audience of women and their eager faces.… — Jean Baudrillard

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