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There is that great proverb – that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.

Chinua Achebe

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

Hear Understand 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
There is a moral obligation, I think, not to ally oneself with power against the powerless.
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Moral Obligation Power Thinking
It is praiseworthy to be brave and fearless, but sometimes it is better to be a coward. We often stand in the compound of a coward to point at the ruins where a brave man used to live.
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Better Brave Coward Live Praise Worth
Now one of the changes that must come to Africa is the idea of limited rule, I mean in term of how long one leader can stay in power. The era of president for life is not gone yet but it is on its way out and that is one of the problems with Mugabe and others.
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Change Ideas Leadership Limitation Power Problem Stay
We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own.
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Humanity Ourselves Value
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
If one finger brings oil it soils the others.
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Fingering Oneself
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
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
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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Oneself Peace People Understand
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
People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.
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Creation Inspirational People Story Success
Women and music should not be dated.
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Date Music Woman
A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.
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Himself Man Worth
Only the story can continue beyond the war and the warrior. The story outlives the sound of the war drum… The story is our escort. Without it we are blind… It is the thing that sets us apart from cattle.
CHINUA ACHEBE

Beyond Blind Cattle Ourselves Warrior

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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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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