Nobody can teach me who I am.
CHINUA ACHEBEA man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.
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We do not seek to hurt any man, but if any man seeks to hurt us may he break his neck.
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It is the storyteller who makes us what we are, who creates history. The storyteller creates the memory that the survivors must have – otherwise their surviving would have no meaning.
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No matter how prosperous a man was, if he was unable to rule his women and his children (and especially his women) he was not really a man.
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Whatever music you beat on your drum there is somebody who can dance to it.
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A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.
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People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.
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He is a fool who treats his brother worse than a stranger.
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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.
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If you have leaders who are prepared to incite group against group it is very easy to manufacture reasons and excuses.
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In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasn’t perhaps completely whole, that something was left out.
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When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.
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When a man is at peace with his gods and ancestors, his harvest will be good or bad according to the strength of his arm.
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I don’t like to see mistakes on the typewriter. I like a perfect script. On the typewriter I will sometimes leave a phrase that is not right, not what I want, simply because to change it would be a bit messy.
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A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.
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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.
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