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The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.

Chinua Achebe

Every generation must recognize and embrace the task it is peculiarly designed by history and by providence to perform.
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Design Embrace Generation History Performance Recognition Task
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
There is a moral obligation, I think, not to ally oneself with power against the powerless.
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Moral Obligation Power Thinking
A man who pays respect to the great paves the way for his own greatness
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Character Ethnicity Greatness Man Pay Respect
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
The world is large,” said Okonkwo. “I have even heard that in some tribes a man’s children belong to his wife and her family.” “That cannot be,” said Machi. “You might as well say that the woman lies on top of the man when they are making the babies.
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Children Family Man Sex Tribe Woman World
Whatever music you beat on your drum there is somebody who can dance to it.
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Dance Finding Music Self Love Yourself
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
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
The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.
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Experience Learning Philosophy Wisdom
He is a fool who treats his brother worse than a stranger.
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Brother Fools Treat Worst
The impatient idealist says: ‘Give me a place to stand and I shall move the earth.’ But such a place does not exist. We all have to stand on the earth itself and go with her at her pace.
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Earth Existence Ideal Myself Place
The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.
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Damage Repair Time
No man however great is greater than his people.
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Greatness Leadership Man People Position Value
People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that’s the time to do something about it, not when it’s around your neck.
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Finding Neck People Time Water Yourself
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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Art Conversation Eat Word

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