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Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story even if on the surface it’s far removed from your situation.

Chinua Achebe

A child cannot pay for its mother’s milk.
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Children Milk Mom Pay
Do not be in a hurry to rush into the pleasures of the world like the young antelope who danced herself lame when the main dance was yet to come.
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Dance Hurry Lame Pleasure
I don’t like to see mistakes on the typewriter. I like a perfect script. On the typewriter I will sometimes leave a phrase that is not right, not what I want, simply because to change it would be a bit messy.
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Change Mistake Myself Perfection Script See Simplicity
Storytellers are a threat. They threaten all champions of control, they frighten usurpers of the right-to-freedom of the human spirit — in state, in church or mosque, in party congress, in the university or wherever.
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Control Freedom Human Religion Spirit Threat
Dancing is very important nowadays. No girl will look at you if you can’t dance.
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Dance Important See Yourself
If you don’t like someone’s story, write your own.
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Inspirational Motivational Writing Yourself
Charity is the opium of the privileged.
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Charity Opium Privilege
If a child washed his hands, he could eat with kings.
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Children Deep Eat Hands King Value Wash
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
My son even if you want to fall, at least fall where your bones can be gathered.
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Bone Fall Myself Son
When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground.
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Death Ground Library Man Old
Wisdom is like a goatskin bag; every man carries his own.
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Carry Himself Man Wisdom
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
A debt may get mouldy, but it never decays.
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Debt Decay
Every lizard lies on its belly, so we cannot tell which has a belly-ache
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Animal Lying Philosophy
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

Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story even if on the surface it’s far removed from your situation.

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Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story even if on the surface it’s far removed from your situation.

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