He is a fool who treats his brother worse than a stranger.
CHINUA ACHEBEWe 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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The singer should sing well even if it is merely to himself, rather than dance badly for the whole world.
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When mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth
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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.
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We shall all live. We pray for life, children, a good harvest and happiness. You will have what is good for you and I will have what is good for me. Let the kite perch and let the egret perch too. If one says no to the other, let his wing break.
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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.
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And theories are no more than fictions which help us to make sense of experience and which are subject to disconfirmation when their explanations are no longer adequate.
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If you have leaders who are prepared to incite group against group it is very easy to manufacture reasons and excuses.
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Each of my books is different. Deliberately. I wanted to create my society, my people, in their fullness.
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Wisdom is like a goatskin bag; every man carries his own.
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A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.
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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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Africa is to Europe as the picture is to Dorian Gray-a carrier onto whom the master unloads his physical & moral deformities.
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The impatient idealist says: ‘Give me a place to stand and I shall move the earth.’ But such a place does not exist. We all have to stand on the earth itself and go with her at her pace.
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People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.
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The language of young men is pull down and destroy; but an old man speaks of conciliation.
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