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Whatever music you beat on your drum there is somebody who can dance to it.

Chinua Achebe

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
Among the Igbo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten.
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Art Conversation Eat Word
When we are comfortable and inattentive, we run the risk of committing grave injustices absentmindedly.
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Attention Comfortable Commitment Grave Risk Run
When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don’t just turn it off one day.
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Enough Oneself Strength Tradition
When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground.
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Death Ground Library Man Old
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
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
There is nothing to fear from someone who shouts.
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Character Fear Man Nature Oneself Shout
We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own. The Igbo, always practical, put it concretely in their proverb Onye ji onye n’ani ji onwe ya: ‘He who will hold another down in the mud must stay in the mud to keep him down.’
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Himself Humanity Moral Practical Stay Value
He is a fool who treats his brother worse than a stranger.
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Brother Fools Treat Worst
If a child washed his hands, he could eat with kings.
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Children Deep Eat Hands King Value Wash
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
Dancing is very important nowadays. No girl will look at you if you can’t dance.
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Dance Important See Yourself
We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own.
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Humanity Ourselves Value
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
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

Whatever music you beat on your drum there is somebody who can dance to it.

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