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When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands.

Chinua Achebe

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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Easy Leadership Manufacture Preparation Reason Yourself
If you don’t like someone’s story, write your own. If you don’t like what somebody says, say what it is you don’t like.
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Expression Feeling Story Talk
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
In dealing with a man who thinks you are a fool, it is good sometimes to remind him that you know what he knows but have chosen to appear foolish for the sake of peace.
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Deal Fools Goodness Known Man Peace Thinking Yourself
One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.
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Compromise Integrity Refusal Test True
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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Description Finding Myself Need Teaching
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
Nobody can teach me who I am.
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Myself Philosophy Teaching
An artist in my view is always afraid of extremists; he is always afraid of those who claim to have found the ultimate solution to any question.
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Afraid Artist Question Solution Ultimate View
Let the kite perch and let the eagle perch too – If one says no to the other, let his wing break.
CHINUA ACHEBE

Break Oneself Wings
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
When mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth
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Man Watch Young
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
Do not be in a hurry to rush into the pleasures of the world like the young antelope who danced herself lame when the main dance was yet to come.
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Dance Hurry Lame Pleasure
Every lizard lies on its belly, so we cannot tell which has a belly-ache
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Animal Lying Philosophy
When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don’t just turn it off one day.
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Enough Oneself Strength Tradition

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