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As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us.

Chinua Achebe

We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own.
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Humanity Ourselves Value
When brothers fight to death a stranger inherit their father’s estate.
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Brother Death Fight Profit Stranger
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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Change Learning Myself
As a rule I don’t like suffering to no purpose. Suffering should be creative, should give birth to something good and lovely.
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Creativity Love Purpose Rule Suffering
The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.
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Dance Mask Place Stand World Yourself
Every generation must find its mission and fulfill it, as Fanon said – or betray it. So it is not something that you can write up on the wall, saying this is what has to be done. Every generation has to discover what it needs to do.
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Discover Finding Fulfill Generation Mission Need
The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use.
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Different Kind Language Price Submission World
Nobody can teach me who I am.
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Myself Philosophy Teaching
The singer should sing well even if it is merely to himself, rather than dance badly for the whole world.
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Dance Singing World
Art is man’s constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.
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Art Creation Effort Himself Reality
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
Every lizard lies on its belly, so we cannot tell which has a belly-ache
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Animal Lying Philosophy
What a man does not know is greater than he.
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Greatness Himself Man
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
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 I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands.
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Beginning Education Land Learning Myself People

As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us.

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