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Just think of the work you’ve set yourself to do, and do it as well as you can.

Chinua Achebe

Wisdom is like a goatskin bag; every man carries his own.
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Carry Himself Man Wisdom
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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Change Mistake Myself Perfection Script See Simplicity
Privilege, you see, is one of the great adversaries of the imagination; it spreads a thick layer of adipose tissue over our sensitivity.
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Greatness Imagination Man Privilege Yourself
Each of my books is different. Deliberately. I wanted to create my society, my people, in their fullness.
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Book Creation Different Myself People
I am against people reaping where they have not sown. But we have a saying that if you want to eat a toad you should look for a fat and juicy one.
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Eat People Talk Yourself
The language of young men is pull down and destroy; but an old man speaks of conciliation.
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Destroy Language Man Old Repair Talk Togetherness Young
Procrastination is a lazy man’s apology.
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Apology Man Perspective Procrastination
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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Man Prosperity Rule Woman
We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own. The Igbo, always practical, put it concretely in their proverb Onye ji onye n’ani ji onwe ya: ‘He who will hold another down in the mud must stay in the mud to keep him down.’
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Himself Humanity Moral Practical Stay Value
There is that great proverb – that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.
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Deep Glorify Greatness Hunt Proverb Story
The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don’t always know what you get at the other end. If you are not careful you could replace a bad government with one much worse!
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End Government Known Leadership Oneself Problem Worst
People go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they fail to see what is there in front of them.
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Confirm Failure Head People See
It has always been quite apparent to me that no important story can fail to tell us something of value to us.
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Apparent Important Ourselves Quite Value
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.
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Charity Forget Goodness Lying Necessary Reality Solution Work
If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all.
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Hear Understand Yourself
Africa is to Europe as the picture is to Dorian Gray-a carrier onto whom the master unloads his physical & moral deformities.
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Moral Photograph Physical

Just think of the work you’ve set yourself to do, and do it as well as you can.

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