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Art is man’s constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.

Chinua Achebe

One reason why I am quite angry with what is happening in Nigeria today is that everything has collapsed. If I decide to go back now, there will be so many problems – where will I find the physical therapy and other things that I now require?
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Angry Collapse Quit Reason Therapy Trouble
Each of my books is different. Deliberately. I wanted to create my society, my people, in their fullness.
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Book Creation Different Myself People
No man however great is greater than his people.
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Greatness Leadership Man People Position Value
When brothers fight to death a stranger inherit their father’s estate.
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Brother Death Fight Profit Stranger
When a coward sees a man he can beat he becomes hungry for a fight.
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Competition Coward Fight Hungry Man See
When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.
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Door Hard Time Himself Knock Suffering Worry
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
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 child cannot pay for its mother’s milk.
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Children Milk Mom Pay
If one finger brings oil it soils the others.
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Fingering Oneself
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
Let the kite perch and let the eagle perch too – If one says no to the other, let his wing break.
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Break Oneself Wings
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
The world is large,” said Okonkwo. “I have even heard that in some tribes a man’s children belong to his wife and her family.” “That cannot be,” said Machi. “You might as well say that the woman lies on top of the man when they are making the babies.
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Children Family Man Sex Tribe Woman World
A man who pays respect to the great paves the way for his own greatness
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Character Ethnicity Greatness Man Pay Respect

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