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The sun will shine on those who stand before it shines on those who kneel under them.

Chinua Achebe

I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.
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Growth Life Old People Thinking
Storytellers are a threat. They threaten all champions of control, they frighten usurpers of the right-to-freedom of the human spirit — in state, in church or mosque, in party congress, in the university or wherever.
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Control Freedom Human Religion Spirit Threat
What a man does not know is greater than he.
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Greatness Himself Man
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
If you don’t like someone’s story, write your own.
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Inspirational Motivational Writing Yourself
I don’t like to see mistakes on the typewriter. I like a perfect script. On the typewriter I will sometimes leave a phrase that is not right, not what I want, simply because to change it would be a bit messy.
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Change Mistake Myself Perfection Script See Simplicity
A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.
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Himself Man Trouble
Every lizard lies on its belly, so we cannot tell which has a belly-ache
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Animal Lying Philosophy
Dancing is very important nowadays. No girl will look at you if you can’t dance.
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Dance Important See Yourself
If a child washed his hands, he could eat with kings.
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Children Deep Eat Hands King Value Wash
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
If one finger brings oil it soils the others.
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Fingering Oneself
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
Most writers who are beginners, if they are honest with themselves, will admit that they are praying for a readership as they begin to write. But it should be the quality of the craft, not the audience, that should be the greatest motivating factor.
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Audience Beginning Factor Praying Writing
Charity is the opium of the privileged.
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Charity Opium Privilege
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 sun will shine on those who stand before it shines on those who kneel under them.

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