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Nobody can teach me who I am.

Chinua Achebe

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
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.
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Eat People Talk Yourself
A man who does not lick his lips, can he blame the harmattan for drying them?
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Blame Dry Lips Man
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
Whatever music you beat on your drum there is somebody who can dance to it.
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Dance Finding Music Self Love Yourself
An angry man is always a stupid man.
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Angry Man Stupidity
When mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth
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Man Watch Young
A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.
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Himself Man Worth
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 a rule I don’t like suffering to no purpose. Suffering should be creative, should give birth to something good and lovely.
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Creativity Love Purpose Rule Suffering
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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Finding Neck People Time Water Yourself
A coward may cover the ground with his words but when the time comes to fight he runs away.
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Coward Fight Run Time War
Literature, whether handed down by word or mouth or in print, gives us a second handle on reality.
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Hands Literature Ourselves Reality
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
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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Art Creation Effort Himself Reality
Procrastination is a lazy man’s apology.
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Apology Man Perspective Procrastination

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