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Women and music should not be dated.

Chinua Achebe

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
My weapon is literature.
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Literature Myself Weapon
When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.
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Mouth Old Ourselves People Sweet
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
Dancing is very important nowadays. No girl will look at you if you can’t dance.
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Dance Important See Yourself
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
No man however great is greater than his people.
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Greatness Leadership Man People Position Value
The sun will shine on those who stand before it shines on those who kneel under them.
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Motivational Shine Stand Sun
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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Apparent Important Ourselves Quite Value
Charity is the opium of the privileged.
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Charity Opium Privilege
Most writers who are beginners, if they are honest with themselves, will admit that they are praying for a readership as they begin to write. But it should be the quality of the craft, not the audience, that should be the greatest motivating factor.
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Audience Beginning Factor Praying Writing
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
I think not just Nigeria but I think the whole of Africa has to turn back to the rural areas and that’s where the majority of the citizens are and that’s where the engine of of development has to be found.
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Development Finding Rural Thinking
When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands.
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Beginning Education Land Learning Myself People
A debt may get mouldy, but it never decays.
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Debt Decay
If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all.
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Hear Understand Yourself

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