We do not seek to hurt any man, but if any man seeks to hurt us may he break his neck.
CHINUA ACHEBEArt 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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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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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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Among the Igbo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten.
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There is no story that is not true.
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A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.
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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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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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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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A child cannot pay for its mother’s milk.
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Charity is the opium of the privileged.
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Dancing is very important nowadays. No girl will look at you if you can’t dance.
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It is praiseworthy to be brave and fearless, but sometimes it is better to be a coward. We often stand in the compound of a coward to point at the ruins where a brave man used to live.
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If a child washed his hands, he could eat with kings.
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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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We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own.
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