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Privilege, you see, is one of the great adversaries of the imagination; it spreads a thick layer of adipose tissue over our sensitivity.

Chinua Achebe

I prefer to go on trying all kinds of things, not to be told, This is the way it is done.
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Adventure Kindness Myself Way
A debt may get mouldy, but it never decays.
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Debt Decay
When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.
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Mouth Old Ourselves People Sweet
When a mad man walks naked, it is his kinsmen who feel shame, not himself.
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Feeling Himself Madness Man Naked Shame
If a child washed his hands, he could eat with kings.
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Children Deep Eat Hands King Value Wash
A coward may cover the ground with his words but when the time comes to fight he runs away.
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Coward Fight Run Time War
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
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
There is a moral obligation, I think, not to ally oneself with power against the powerless.
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Moral Obligation Power Thinking
A child cannot pay for its mother’s milk.
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Children Milk Mom Pay
A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.
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Himself Man Worth
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 disease that has never been seen before cannot be cured with every-day herbs.
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Carry Cure Disease Hospital
Just think of the work you’ve set yourself to do, and do it as well as you can.
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Thinking Work Yourself
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
The lizard that jumped from a high Iroko tree to the ground said he would praise himself if no-one else did.
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Deep Lizard Philosophy Praise

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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