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I am against people reaping where they have not sown. But we have a saying that if you want to eat a toad you should look for a fat and juicy one.

Chinua Achebe

My weapon is literature.
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Literature Myself Weapon
Nobody can teach me who I am.
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Myself Philosophy Teaching
We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own.
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Humanity Ourselves Value
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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Oneself Peace People Understand
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
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
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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Afraid Artist Question Solution Ultimate View
If I hold her hand she says, ‘Don’t touch!’ If I hold her foot she says ‘Don’t touch!’ But when I hold her waist-beads she pretends not to know.
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Foot Hands Hold Myself Pretend
If one finger brings oil it soils the others.
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Fingering Oneself
In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasn’t perhaps completely whole, that something was left out.
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Fake Myself Religion Story Truth
A man who does not lick his lips, can he blame the harmattan for drying them?
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Blame Dry Lips Man
The sun will shine on those who stand before it shines on those who kneel under them.
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Motivational Shine Stand Sun
The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use.
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Different Kind Language Price Submission World
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
Every generation must recognize and embrace the task it is peculiarly designed by history and by providence to perform.
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Design Embrace Generation History Performance Recognition Task
A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.
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Himself Man Trouble

I am against people reaping where they have not sown. But we have a saying that if you want to eat a toad you should look for a fat and juicy one.

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I am against people reaping where they have not sown. But we have a saying that if you want to eat a toad you should look for a fat and juicy one.

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