Africa is to Europe as the picture is to Dorian Gray-a carrier onto whom the master unloads his physical & moral deformities.
CHINUA ACHEBEWe do not seek to hurt any man, but if any man seeks to hurt us may he break his neck.
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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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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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When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands.
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If a child washed his hands, he could eat with kings.
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While we do our good works let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.
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No matter how prosperous a man was, if he was unable to rule his women and his children (and especially his women) he was not really a man.
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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.
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Nigeria is what it is because its leaders are not what they should be.
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When mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth
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Every lizard lies on its belly, so we cannot tell which has a belly-ache
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The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.
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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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If you don’t like someone’s story, write your own.
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A man who does not lick his lips, can he blame the harmattan for drying them?
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And theories are no more than fictions which help us to make sense of experience and which are subject to disconfirmation when their explanations are no longer adequate.
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A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.
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Procrastination is a lazy man’s apology.
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Dancing is very important nowadays. No girl will look at you if you can’t dance.
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Among the Igbo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten.
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My son even if you want to fall, at least fall where your bones can be gathered.
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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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There is a moral obligation, I think, not to ally oneself with power against the powerless.
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Wisdom is like a goatskin bag; every man carries his own.
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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.
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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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It has always been quite apparent to me that no important story can fail to tell us something of value to us.
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