A debt may get moldy, but it never decays.
--Chinua Achebe
A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.
--Chinua Achebe
Become familiar with your home, but know also about your neighbors.
--Chinua Achebe
Charity... is the opium of the privileged.
--Chinua Achebe
Every generation must recognize and embrace the task it is peculiarly designed by history and by providence to perform.
--Chinua Achebe
If you don't like someone's story, write your own.
--Chinua Achebe
If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all.
--Chinua Achebe
Literature, whether handed down by word of mouth or in print, gives us a second handle on reality.
--Chinua Achebe
No man, however great, is greater than his people.
--Chinua Achebe
Nobody can teach me who I am.
--Chinua Achebe
One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.
--Chinua Achebe
Procrastination is a lazy man's apology.
--Chinua Achebe
The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.
--Chinua Achebe
The impatient idealist says: 'Give me a place to stand and I shall move the earth.' But such a place does not exist. We all have to stand on the earth itself and go with her at her pace.
--Chinua Achebe
The women are, of course, the biggest single group of oppressed people in the world and, if we are to believe the Book of Genesis, the very oldest.
--Chinua Achebe
The young man who never went anywhere thinks his mother is the greatest cook.
--Chinua Achebe
There is a moral obligation, I think, not to ally oneself with power against the powerless.
--Chinua Achebe
There is no story that is not true.
--Chinua Achebe
There is that great proverb- that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.
--Chinua Achebe
We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own.
--Chinua Achebe
When a coward sees a man he can beat he becomes hungry for a fight.
--Chinua Achebe
When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day.
--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
While we do our good works let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.
--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
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