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When a coward sees a man he can beat he becomes hungry for a fight.

Chinua Achebe

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?
CHINUA ACHEBE

Angry Collapse Quit Reason Therapy Trouble
Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story even if on the surface it’s far removed from your situation.
CHINUA ACHEBE

Beginning Identify People Removal Situation Story Yourself
We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own.
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Humanity Ourselves Value
While we do our good works let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.
CHINUA ACHEBE

Charity Forget Goodness Lying Necessary Reality Solution Work
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
There is nothing to fear from someone who shouts.
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Character Fear Man Nature Oneself Shout
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
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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Beginning Himself Man Pay Visit
Every lizard lies on its belly, so we cannot tell which has a belly-ache
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Animal Lying Philosophy
Charity is the opium of the privileged.
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Charity Opium Privilege
People go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they fail to see what is there in front of them.
CHINUA ACHEBE

Confirm Failure Head People See
A man who pays respect to the great paves the way for his own greatness
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Character Ethnicity Greatness Man Pay Respect
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
When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground.
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Death Ground Library Man Old
No matter how prosperous a man was, if he was unable to rule his women and his children (and especially his women) he was not really a man.
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Man Prosperity Rule Woman
Storytellers are a threat. They threaten all champions of control, they frighten usurpers of the right-to-freedom of the human spirit — in state, in church or mosque, in party congress, in the university or wherever.
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Control Freedom Human Religion Spirit Threat

When a coward sees a man he can beat he becomes hungry for a fight.

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