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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

No man however great is greater than his people.
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Greatness Leadership Man People Position Value
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
No matter how prosperous a man was, if he was unable to rule his women and his children (and especially his women) he was not really a man.
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Man Prosperity Rule Woman
There is no story that is not true.
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One Liner Story True
A goat does not eat into a hen’s stomach no matter how friendly the two may be.
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Friendship Goat Hen Stomach
A disease that has never been seen before cannot be cured with every-day herbs.
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Carry Cure Disease Hospital
When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don’t just turn it off one day.
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Enough Oneself Strength Tradition
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
People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.
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Creation Inspirational People Story Success
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
Now one of the changes that must come to Africa is the idea of limited rule, I mean in term of how long one leader can stay in power. The era of president for life is not gone yet but it is on its way out and that is one of the problems with Mugabe and others.
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Change Ideas Leadership Limitation Power Problem Stay
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
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
In dealing with a man who thinks you are a fool, it is good sometimes to remind him that you know what he knows but have chosen to appear foolish for the sake of peace.
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Deal Fools Goodness Known Man Peace Thinking Yourself
We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own.
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Humanity Ourselves Value
When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands.
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Beginning Education Land Learning Myself People

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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