If you don’t like someone’s story, write your own
Quotable quotes from famous books by the great African writer 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.”
“If you don’t like someone’s story, write your own.”
“Storytellers are a threat. They threaten all champions of control, they frighten usurpers of the right-to-freedom of the human spirit — in state, in church or mosque, in party congress, in the university or wherever.”
“Nobody can teach me who I am. You can describe parts of me, but who I am – and what I need – is something I have to find out myself.”
“There is no story that is not true, [...] The world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abomination with others.”
“The world is large,” said Okonkwo. “I have even heard that in some tribes a man’s children belong to his wife and her family.” “That cannot be,” said Machi. “You might as well say that the woman lies on top of the man when they are making the babies.”
“Procrastination is a lazy man’s apology.”
“…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.”
“A man who pays respect to the great paves the way for his own greatness.”
“A toad does not run in the daytime for nothing.”
Compiled by goodreads.com