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If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all.

Chinua Achebe

A child cannot pay for its mother’s milk.
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Children Milk Mom Pay
Become familiar with your home, but know also about your neighbors. The young man who never went anywhere thinks his mother is the greatest cook.
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Cook Greatness Home Known Mom Neighbor
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
It is the storyteller who makes us what we are, who creates history. The storyteller creates the memory that the survivors must have – otherwise their surviving would have no meaning.
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Creation History Meaning Storyteller Survival
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
A man who does not lick his lips, can he blame the harmattan for drying them?
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Blame Dry Lips Man
What a man does not know is greater than he.
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Greatness Himself Man
I prefer to go on trying all kinds of things, not to be told, This is the way it is done.
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Adventure Kindness Myself Way
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
Whenever you see a toad jumping in broad daylight, then know that something is after its life.
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Animal Frog Known Life See Yourself
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
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
If one finger brings oil it soils the others.
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Fingering Oneself
When a coward sees a man he can beat he becomes hungry for a fight.
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Competition Coward Fight Hungry Man See
If a child washed his hands, he could eat with kings.
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Children Deep Eat Hands King Value Wash
Procrastination is a lazy man’s apology.
CHINUA ACHEBE

Apology Man Perspective Procrastination

If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all.

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