Things+Fall+Apart


 * Chinua Achebe's **
 *  Things Fall Apart **

“The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.”

“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.”

“A man who calls his kinsmen to a feast does not do so to save them from starving. They all have food in their own homes. When we gather together in the moonlit village ground it is not because of the moon. Every man can see it in his own compound. We come together because it is good for kinsmen to do so.”

“Age was respected among his people, but achievement was revered. As the elders said, if a child washed his hands he could eat with kings.”

"Our elders say that the sun will shine on those who stand before it shines on those who kneel under them."

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