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Literature, whether handed down by word or mouth or in print, gives us a second handle on reality.

Chinua Achebe

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.
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Charity Forget Goodness Lying Necessary Reality Solution Work
Charity is the opium of the privileged.
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Charity Opium Privilege
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
Art is man’s constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.
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Art Creation Effort Himself Reality
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
The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.
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Dance Mask Place Stand World Yourself
There is a moral obligation, I think, not to ally oneself with power against the powerless.
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Moral Obligation Power Thinking
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
People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.
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Creation Inspirational People Story Success
A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.
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Himself Man Worth
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
The lizard that jumped from a high Iroko tree to the ground said he would praise himself if no-one else did.
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Deep Lizard Philosophy Praise
When a man is at peace with his gods and ancestors, his harvest will be good or bad according to the strength of his arm.
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Arm God Goodness Harvest Man Peace Strength
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
A coward may cover the ground with his words but when the time comes to fight he runs away.
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Coward Fight Run Time War
Every lizard lies on its belly, so we cannot tell which has a belly-ache
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Animal Lying Philosophy

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