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.
CHINUA ACHEBEEvery generation must recognize and embrace the task it is peculiarly designed by history and by providence to perform.
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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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We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own.
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There is nothing to fear from someone who shouts.
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If I hold her hand she says, ‘Don’t touch!’ If I hold her foot she says ‘Don’t touch!’ But when I hold her waist-beads she pretends not to know.
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Just think of the work you’ve set yourself to do, and do it as well as you can.
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If you have leaders who are prepared to incite group against group it is very easy to manufacture reasons and excuses.
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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.
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If a child washed his hands, he could eat with kings.
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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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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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Dancing is very important nowadays. No girl will look at you if you can’t dance.
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When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don’t just turn it off one day.
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If one finger brings oil it soils the others.
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People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.
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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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