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"The white human being is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were tickled at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer human activity like one. He has put a knife on the things that held united states of america together and we accept fallen apart."
― Chinua Achebe, Things Autumn Apart
"There is no story that is not true, [...] The world has no end, and what is skillful among i people is an abomination with others."
― Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart
"A man who calls his kinsmen to a feast does not practice so to save them from starving. They all have food in their own homes. When nosotros gather together in the moonlit village basis it is not because of the moon. Every man can see it in his ain compound. We come together considering information technology is good for kinsmen to do so."
― Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart
"If I concord her hand she says, 'Don't affect!'
If I agree her foot she says 'Don't bear on!'
But when I hold her waist-beads she pretends not to know."
― Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Autonomously
"When the moon is shining the cripple becomes hungry for a walk"
― Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Autonomously
"And then listen to me,' he said and cleared his throat. 'It's true that a child belongs to its father. But when a male parent beats his child, it seeks sympathy in its mother'southward hut. A man belongs to his fatherland when things are good and life is sweet. But when there is sorrow and bitterness he finds refuge in his motherland. Your mother is there to protect yous. She is buried there. And that is why we say that female parent is supreme. Is it correct that you lot, Okonkwo, should bring your mother a heavy face up and reject to be comforted? Be careful or you may displease the expressionless. Your duty is to comfort your wives and children and accept them dorsum to your fatherland afterward seven years. But if you allow sorrow to weigh y'all down and kill y'all, they will all dice in exile."
― Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart
"Among the Ibo the art of chat is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten."
― Chinua Achebe, Things Autumn Apart
"Historic period was respected among his people, but achievement was revered. Every bit the elders said, if a child washed his easily he could eat with kings."
― Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart
"Possibly downward in his centre Okonkwo was non a savage man. Only his whole life was dominated by fear, the fear of failure and of weakness.
It was deeper and more than intimate that the fear of evil and capricious gods and of magic, the fear of the wood, and of the forces of nature, malevolent, cherry-red in molar and claw.
Okonkwo'due south fearfulness was greater than these. It was not external but lay deep within himself."
― Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart
"The world has no end, and what is expert among one people is an abomination with others."
― Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart
"Do not despair. I know you will non despair. You have a manly and a proud heart. A proud heart can survive a general failure because such a failure does not prick its pride. Information technology is more than difficult and more bitter when a man fails lone."
― Chinua Achebe, Things Autumn Apart
"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."
― Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart
"Mr. Brown had thought of naught but numbers. He should take known that the kingdom of God did not depend on large crowds. Our Lord Himself stressed the importance of fewness. Narrow is the fashion and few the number. To make full the Lord's holy temple with an idolatrous oversupply clamoring for signs was a folly of everlasting result. Our Lord used the whip only once in His life - to drive the crowd abroad from His church."
― Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart
"It always surprised him when he idea of information technology later that he did not sink under the load of despair."
― Chinua Achebe, Things Autumn Apart
"Musquito [...] had asked Ear to marry him, whereupon Ear fell on the floor in uncontrollable laughter. "How much longer exercise y'all call up you will live?" she asked. "You are already a skeleton." Mosquito went abroad humiliated, and whatsoever time he passed her manner he told Ear that he was still live."
― Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart
"Eneke the bird says that since men have learned to shoot without missing, he has learned to fly without perching."
― Chinua Achebe, Things Autumn Apart
"At the nigh i could say that his chi or ... personal god was good. Simply the Ibo people have a proverb that when a human says yes his chi says yes besides. Okonkwo said yes very strongly; and then his chi agreed. "
― Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart
"There was a saying in Umuofia that as a man danced so the drums were browbeaten for him."
― Chinua Achebe, Things Autumn Autonomously
"The world is large," said Okonkwo. "I take even heard that in some tribes a man's children belong to his wife and her family unit."
"That cannot be," said Machi. "You might every bit well say that the woman lies on top of the human when they are making the babies."
― Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart
"Yous think you are the greatest sufferer in the world? Do you know that men are sometimes banished for life? Practise you know that men sometimes lose all their yams and even their children? I had six wives in one case. I have none now except that young girl who knows not her right from her left. Practise yous know how many children I have buried—children I begot in my youth and strength? 20-two. I did non hang myself, and I am still alive."
― Chinua Achebe, Things Autumn Autonomously
"If yous had been poor in your last life I would have asked yous to be rich when you come again. Just you lot were rich. If you had been a coward, I would have asked you to bring courage. Merely you were a fearless warrior. If you had died young, I would have asked y'all to go life. But you lived long. Then I shall ask y'all to come again the mode y'all came before."
― Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart
"When a man is at peace with his gods and ancestors, his harvest volition be good or bad according to the force of his arm."
― Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart
"He has put a knife on the things that held us together and nosotros have fallen autonomously."
― Chinua Achebe, Things Autumn Apart
"When mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones scout its oral cavity"
― Chinua Achebe , Things Autumn Apart
"Ogbuef Ezedudu,who was the oldest man in the village, was telling ii other men when they came to visit him that the punishment for breaking the Peace of Ani had go very mild in their clan.
"Information technology has non always been and then," he said. "My father told me that he had been told that in the past a man who broke the peace was dragged on the ground through the hamlet until he died. simply later on a while this custom was stopped because it spoiled the peace which information technology was meant to preserve."
― Chinua Achebe, Things Autumn Apart
"He saw himself and his fathers crowding round their bequeathed shrine waiting in vain for worship and sacrifice and finding nothing but ashes of bygone days.."
― Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart
"We do not ask for wealth because he that has health and children will also have wealth. We do not pray to have money but to take more than kinsmen. Nosotros are better than animals considering we accept kinsmen. An animal rubs its itching flank against a tree, a man asks his kinsman to scratch him."
― Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart
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