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What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens – whether people are of a different ethnicity or gender.

Chinua Achebe

We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own. The Igbo, always practical, put it concretely in their proverb Onye ji onye n’ani ji onwe ya: ‘He who will hold another down in the mud must stay in the mud to keep him down.’
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Himself Humanity Moral Practical Stay Value
When a man is at peace with his gods and ancestors, his harvest will be good or bad according to the strength of his arm.
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Arm God Goodness Harvest Man Peace Strength
A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.
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Himself Man Trouble
Nigeria is what it is because its leaders are not what they should be.
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Government Leadership Politics
The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don’t always know what you get at the other end. If you are not careful you could replace a bad government with one much worse!
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End Government Known Leadership Oneself Problem Worst
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
Dancing is very important nowadays. No girl will look at you if you can’t dance.
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Dance Important See Yourself
One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.
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Compromise Integrity Refusal Test True
An artist in my view is always afraid of extremists; he is always afraid of those who claim to have found the ultimate solution to any question.
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Afraid Artist Question Solution Ultimate View
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
The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.
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Clear Fools Himself Man Peace Togetherness White Winning
My weapon is literature.
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Literature Myself Weapon
There is nothing to fear from someone who shouts.
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Character Fear Man Nature Oneself Shout
I think not just Nigeria but I think the whole of Africa has to turn back to the rural areas and that’s where the majority of the citizens are and that’s where the engine of of development has to be found.
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Development Finding Rural Thinking
Every lizard lies on its belly, so we cannot tell which has a belly-ache
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Animal Lying Philosophy
If a child washed his hands, he could eat with kings.
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Children Deep Eat Hands King Value Wash

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