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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

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
A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.
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Democracy Education Function Government Leadership Participate
Charity is the opium of the privileged.
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Charity Opium Privilege
An artist in my view is always afraid of extremists; he is always afraid of those who claim to have found the ultimate solution to any question.
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Afraid Artist Question Solution Ultimate View
Women and music should not be dated.
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Date Music Woman
Dancing is very important nowadays. No girl will look at you if you can’t dance.
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Dance Important See Yourself
What a man does not know is greater than he.
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Greatness Himself Man
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
He is a fool who treats his brother worse than a stranger.
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Brother Fools Treat Worst
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
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
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
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 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
Among the Igbo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten.
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Art Conversation Eat Word
There is that great proverb – that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.
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Deep Glorify Greatness Hunt Proverb Story

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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