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Chinua Achebe

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
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
When brothers fight to death a stranger inherit their father’s estate.
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Brother Death Fight Profit Stranger
Charity is the opium of the privileged.
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Charity Opium Privilege
If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all.
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Hear Understand Yourself
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
A debt may get mouldy, but it never decays.
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Debt Decay
Nigeria is what it is because its leaders are not what they should be.
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Government Leadership Politics
There is a moral obligation, I think, not to ally oneself with power against the powerless.
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Moral Obligation Power Thinking
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
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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Moral Photograph Physical
People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.
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Creation Inspirational People Story Success
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
It has always been quite apparent to me that no important story can fail to tell us something of value to us.
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Apparent Important Ourselves Quite Value
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
Dancing is very important nowadays. No girl will look at you if you can’t dance.
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Dance Important See Yourself

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