QUOTES by Chinua Achebe
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"Onye nkuzi ewelu itali piagbusie umuaka. One of the ways an emphasis is laid in Ibo is by exaggeration, so that the teacher in the refrain might not actually have flogged the children to death."
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"I do not know how to thank you.' 'I can tell you,' said Obierika. 'Kill one of your sons for me.' 'That will not be enough,' said Okonkwo. 'Then kill yourself,' said Obierika."
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"At the end of the thirty-month war Biafra was a vast smoldering rubble. The head count at the end of the war was perhaps three million dead, which was approximately 20 percent of the entire population."
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"Fortunately, among these people a man was judged according to his worth and not according to the worth of his father."
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"No matter how prosperous a man was, if he was unable to rule his women and his children (and especially his women) he was not really a man."
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"To show affection was a sign of weakness; the only thing worth demonstrating was strength."
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"He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart."
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"The sun will shine on those who stand, before it shines on those who kneel under them."
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"And theories are no more than fictions which help us to make sense of experience and which are subject to disconfirmation when their explanations are no longer adequate."
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"...stories are not always innocent;...they can be used to put you in the wrong crowd, in the party of the man who has come to dispossess you."
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"When a man is at peace with his gods and ancestors, his harvest will be good or bad according to the strength of his arm."
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"He saw himself and his fathers crowding round their ancestral shrine waiting in vain for worship and sacrifice and finding nothing but ashes of bygone days.."
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"It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is the mark on the face that sets one people apart from their neighbors."
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"There was a saying in Umuofia that as a man danced so the drums were beaten for him."
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"That we are surrounded by deep mysteries is known to all but the incurably ignorant."
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"For whom is it well, for whom is it well? There is no one for whom it is well."
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"People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own history and their own experience."
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"Every generation must recognize and embrace the task it is peculiarly designed by history and by providence to perform."
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"There is a moral obligation, I think, not to ally oneself with power against the powerless."
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"At the most one could say that his chi or ... personal god was good. But the Ibo people have a proverb that when a man says yes his chi says yes also. Okonkwo said yes very strongly; so his chi agreed."
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"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."
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"The world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abomination with others."
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"You do not know me,’ said Tortoise. ‘I am a changed man. I have learned that a man who makes trouble for others makes trouble for himself."
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"Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter."
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"It is the storyteller who makes us what we are, who creates history. The storyteller creates the memory that the survivors must have - otherwise their surviving would have no meaning."
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"It always surprised him when he thought of it later that he did not sink under the load of despair."
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