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Art is man’s constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.

Chinua Achebe

One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.
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Compromise Integrity Refusal Test True
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 do not seek to hurt any man, but if any man seeks to hurt us may he break his neck.
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Break Hurt Man Neck Seek
We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own.
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Humanity Ourselves Value
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
A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.
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Himself Man Trouble
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 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
Dancing is very important nowadays. No girl will look at you if you can’t dance.
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Dance Important See 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
When mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth
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Man Watch Young
When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.
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Door Hard Time Himself Knock Suffering Worry
The sun will shine on those who stand before it shines on those who kneel under them.
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Motivational Shine Stand Sun
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
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
No man however great is greater than his people.
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Greatness Leadership Man People Position Value

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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