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Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story even if on the surface it’s far removed from your situation.

Chinua Achebe

If you don’t like someone’s story, write your own.
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Inspirational Motivational Writing 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
The language of young men is pull down and destroy; but an old man speaks of conciliation.
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Destroy Language Man Old Repair Talk Togetherness Young
What a man does not know is greater than he.
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Greatness Himself Man
One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.
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Compromise Integrity Refusal Test True
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
We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own.
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Humanity Ourselves Value
There is nothing to fear from someone who shouts.
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Character Fear Man Nature Oneself Shout
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
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
There is that great proverb – that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.
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Deep Glorify Greatness Hunt Proverb Story
A coward may cover the ground with his words but when the time comes to fight he runs away.
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Coward Fight Run Time War
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
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
I am against people reaping where they have not sown. But we have a saying that if you want to eat a toad you should look for a fat and juicy one.
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Eat People Talk Yourself
When mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth
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Man Watch Young

Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story even if on the surface it’s far removed from your situation.

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Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story even if on the surface it’s far removed from your situation.

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