A coward may cover the ground with his words but when the time comes to fight he runs away.
CHINUA ACHEBEIt is the storyteller who makes us what we are, who creates history. The storyteller creates the memory that the survivors must have – otherwise their surviving would have no meaning.
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A debt may get mouldy, but it never decays.
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When mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth
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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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When we are comfortable and inattentive, we run the risk of committing grave injustices absentmindedly.
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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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And theories are no more than fictions which help us to make sense of experience and which are subject to disconfirmation when their explanations are no longer adequate.
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The singer should sing well even if it is merely to himself, rather than dance badly for the whole world.
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An artist in my view is always afraid of extremists; he is always afraid of those who claim to have found the ultimate solution to any question.
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When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don’t just turn it off one day.
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No man however great is greater than his people.
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Every lizard lies on its belly, so we cannot tell which has a belly-ache
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Nobody can teach me who I am. You can describe parts of me, but who I am – and what I need – is something I have to find out myself.
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A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.
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Every generation must recognize and embrace the task it is peculiarly designed by history and by providence to perform.
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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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