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Famous Chinua Achebe Quotes
“There was a saying in Umuofia that as a man danced so the drums were beaten for him.”
“The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.”
“You might as well say that the woman lies on top of the man when they are making the babies.”
“The trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely a failure of leadership.”
“Literature, whether handed down by word or mouth or in print, gives us a second handle on reality.”
“As our fathers said, you can tell a ripe corn by its look.”
“When there is a big tree small ones climb on its back to reach the sun.”
“If one finger brings oil it soils the others.”
“One would think he never sucked at his mother’s breast.”
“When mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth”
“A debt may get mouldy, but it never decays.”