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The man that brings ant-infested faggots into his hut should not grumble when lizards begin to pay him a visit.

Chinua Achebe

Charity is the opium of the privileged.
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Charity Opium Privilege
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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Easy Leadership Manufacture Preparation Reason Yourself
A child cannot pay for its mother’s milk.
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Children Milk Mom Pay
One reason why I am quite angry with what is happening in Nigeria today is that everything has collapsed. If I decide to go back now, there will be so many problems – where will I find the physical therapy and other things that I now require?
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Angry Collapse Quit Reason Therapy Trouble
A goat does not eat into a hen’s stomach no matter how friendly the two may be.
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Friendship Goat Hen Stomach
Dancing is very important nowadays. No girl will look at you if you can’t dance.
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Dance Important See Yourself
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
An angry man is always a stupid man.
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Angry Man Stupidity
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
When mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth
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Man Watch Young
I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.
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Growth Life Old People Thinking
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
Let the kite perch and let the eagle perch too – If one says no to the other, let his wing break.
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Break Oneself Wings
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
There is nothing to fear from someone who shouts.
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Character Fear Man Nature Oneself Shout
Procrastination is a lazy man’s apology.
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Apology Man Perspective Procrastination

The man that brings ant-infested faggots into his hut should not grumble when lizards begin to pay him a visit.

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