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Among the Igbo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten.

Chinua Achebe

When mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth
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Man Watch Young
When we are comfortable and inattentive, we run the risk of committing grave injustices absentmindedly.
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Attention Comfortable Commitment Grave Risk Run
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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Creation History Meaning Storyteller Survival
He is a fool who treats his brother worse than a stranger.
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Brother Fools Treat Worst
If you don’t like someone’s story, write your own.
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Inspirational Motivational Writing Yourself
There is a moral obligation, I think, not to ally oneself with power against the powerless.
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Moral Obligation Power Thinking
Let the kite perch and let the eagle perch too – If one says no to the other, let his wing break.
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Break Oneself Wings
When a mad man walks naked, it is his kinsmen who feel shame, not himself.
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Feeling Himself Madness Man Naked Shame
A disease that has never been seen before cannot be cured with every-day herbs.
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Carry Cure Disease Hospital
It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is the mark on the face that sets one people apart from their neighbors.
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Direction Neighbor People Story
We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own.
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Humanity Ourselves Value
Now one of the changes that must come to Africa is the idea of limited rule, I mean in term of how long one leader can stay in power. The era of president for life is not gone yet but it is on its way out and that is one of the problems with Mugabe and others.
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Change Ideas Leadership Limitation Power Problem Stay
No man however great is greater than his people.
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Greatness Leadership Man People Position Value
One reason why I am quite angry with what is happening in Nigeria today is that everything has collapsed. If I decide to go back now, there will be so many problems – where will I find the physical therapy and other things that I now require?
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Angry Collapse Quit Reason Therapy Trouble
My weapon is literature.
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Literature Myself Weapon
What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens – whether people are of a different ethnicity or gender.
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Citizenship Country Ethnicity Gender

Among the Igbo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten.

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