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He is a fool who treats his brother worse than a stranger.

Chinua Achebe

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
The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use.
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Different Kind Language Price Submission World
I prefer to go on trying all kinds of things, not to be told, This is the way it is done.
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Adventure Kindness Myself Way
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
He is a fool who treats his brother worse than a stranger.
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Brother Fools Treat Worst
The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.
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Damage Repair Time
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
The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.
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Dance Mask Place Stand World Yourself
It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is the mark on the face that sets one people apart from their neighbors.
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Direction Neighbor People Story
Women and music should not be dated.
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Date Music Woman
Dancing is very important nowadays. No girl will look at you if you can’t dance.
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Dance Important See Yourself
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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Beyond Blind Cattle Ourselves Warrior
The singer should sing well even if it is merely to himself, rather than dance badly for the whole world.
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Dance Singing World
No man however great is greater than his people.
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Greatness Leadership Man People Position Value
If I hold her hand she says, ‘Don’t touch!’ If I hold her foot she says ‘Don’t touch!’ But when I hold her waist-beads she pretends not to know.
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Foot Hands Hold Myself Pretend
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

He is a fool who treats his brother worse than a stranger.

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