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A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.

Chinua Achebe

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
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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Citizenship Country Ethnicity Gender
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
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
We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own.
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Humanity Ourselves Value
My weapon is literature.
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Literature Myself Weapon
If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all.
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Hear Understand 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
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
In dealing with a man who thinks you are a fool, it is good sometimes to remind him that you know what he knows but have chosen to appear foolish for the sake of peace.
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Deal Fools Goodness Known Man Peace Thinking Yourself
I don’t like to see mistakes on the typewriter. I like a perfect script. On the typewriter I will sometimes leave a phrase that is not right, not what I want, simply because to change it would be a bit messy.
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Change Mistake Myself Perfection Script See Simplicity
Charity is the opium of the privileged.
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Charity Opium Privilege
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
A man who does not lick his lips, can he blame the harmattan for drying them?
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Blame Dry Lips Man
If you don’t like someone’s story, write your own. If you don’t like what somebody says, say what it is you don’t like.
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Expression Feeling Story Talk
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 of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.

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