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People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.

Chinua Achebe

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
A man who does not lick his lips, can he blame the harmattan for drying them?
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Blame Dry Lips Man
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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Citizenship Country Ethnicity Gender
When a man is at peace with his gods and ancestors, his harvest will be good or bad according to the strength of his arm.
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Arm God Goodness Harvest Man Peace Strength
Women and music should not be dated.
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Date Music Woman
If you don’t like someone’s story, write your own.
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Inspirational Motivational Writing Yourself
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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Direction Neighbor People Story
Let the kite perch and let the eagle perch too – If one says no to the other, let his wing break.
CHINUA ACHEBE

Break Oneself Wings
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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Growth Life Old People Thinking
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
Each of my books is different. Deliberately. I wanted to create my society, my people, in their fullness.
CHINUA ACHEBE

Book Creation Different Myself People
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
A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.
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Himself Man Worth
People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that’s the time to do something about it, not when it’s around your neck.
CHINUA ACHEBE

Finding Neck People Time Water Yourself
The language of young men is pull down and destroy; but an old man speaks of conciliation.
CHINUA ACHEBE

Destroy Language Man Old Repair Talk Togetherness Young
While we do our good works let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.
CHINUA ACHEBE

Charity Forget Goodness Lying Necessary Reality Solution Work

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