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Nigeria is what it is because its leaders are not what they should be.

Chinua Achebe

If you have leaders who are prepared to incite group against group it is very easy to manufacture reasons and excuses.
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Easy Leadership Manufacture Preparation Reason Yourself
My son even if you want to fall, at least fall where your bones can be gathered.
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Bone Fall Myself Son
Dancing is very important nowadays. No girl will look at you if you can’t dance.
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Dance Important See Yourself
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 suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.
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Door Hard Time Himself Knock Suffering Worry
A disease that has never been seen before cannot be cured with every-day herbs.
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Carry Cure Disease Hospital
We shall all live. We pray for life, children, a good harvest and happiness. You will have what is good for you and I will have what is good for me. Let the kite perch and let the egret perch too. If one says no to the other, let his wing break.
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Break Children Live Prayer Wing
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
If you don’t like someone’s story, write your own.
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Inspirational Motivational Writing Yourself
Nobody can teach me who I am.
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Myself Philosophy Teaching
He is a fool who treats his brother worse than a stranger.
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Brother Fools Treat Worst
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.
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Beginning Identify People Removal Situation Story Yourself
Every generation must find its mission and fulfill it, as Fanon said – or betray it. So it is not something that you can write up on the wall, saying this is what has to be done. Every generation has to discover what it needs to do.
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Discover Finding Fulfill Generation Mission Need
One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.
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Compromise Integrity Refusal Test True
A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.
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Himself Man Worth
If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all.
CHINUA ACHEBE

Hear Understand Yourself

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