Chinua Achebe
Things Fall Apart
Sayings by Chinua Achebe
A man's life is a story that is told.
The white man has a religion of his own, which he brought to us. We have our own religion. We should not abandon our own for his.
If you want to eat a toad, you should eat the fat one.
The past is never dead. It's not even past.
Charity begins at home.
Living fire begets cold, impotent ash.
A man who lives on the road to a market does not need to be told when the market is full.
The white man is a chameleon, he changes his colors to suit his environment.
There is no story that is not true.
The world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abomination among others.
If we stand tall it is because we stand on the backs of those who came before us.
A man's value is not in what he owns, but in what he is.
The greatest tragedy is not death, but life without purpose.
The earth is not a place for us to conquer, but to cherish.
The wise man does not say all that he knows.
Privilege, you see, is one of the great adversaries of the imagination; it spreads a thick layer of adipose tissue over our sensitivity.
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.