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I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.

Chinua Achebe

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
Africa is to Europe as the picture is to Dorian Gray-a carrier onto whom the master unloads his physical & moral deformities.
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Moral Photograph Physical
When a mad man walks naked, it is his kinsmen who feel shame, not himself.
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Feeling Himself Madness Man Naked Shame
If you don’t like someone’s story, write your own.
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Inspirational Motivational Writing Yourself
Privilege, you see, is one of the great adversaries of the imagination; it spreads a thick layer of adipose tissue over our sensitivity.
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Greatness Imagination Man Privilege Yourself
Just think of the work you’ve set yourself to do, and do it as well as you can.
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Thinking Work Yourself
The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.
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Damage Repair Time
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
You do not know me,’ said Tortoise. ‘I am a changed man. I have learned that a man who makes trouble for others makes trouble for himself.
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Change Learning Myself
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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Description Finding Myself Need Teaching
Dancing is very important nowadays. No girl will look at you if you can’t dance.
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Dance Important See Yourself
As a rule I don’t like suffering to no purpose. Suffering should be creative, should give birth to something good and lovely.
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Creativity Love Purpose Rule Suffering
I think not just Nigeria but I think the whole of Africa has to turn back to the rural areas and that’s where the majority of the citizens are and that’s where the engine of of development has to be found.
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Development Finding Rural Thinking
A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.
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Himself Man Worth
We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own.
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Humanity Ourselves Value
A debt may get mouldy, but it never decays.
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Debt Decay

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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