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My weapon is literature.

Chinua Achebe

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.
CHINUA ACHEBE

Break Children Live Prayer Wing
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
Procrastination is a lazy man’s apology.
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Apology Man Perspective Procrastination
Nobody can teach me who I am.
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Myself Philosophy Teaching
I think not just Nigeria but I think the whole of Africa has to turn back to the rural areas and that’s where the majority of the citizens are and that’s where the engine of of development has to be found.
CHINUA ACHEBE

Development Finding Rural Thinking
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
He is a fool who treats his brother worse than a stranger.
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Brother Fools Treat Worst
Do not be in a hurry to rush into the pleasures of the world like the young antelope who danced herself lame when the main dance was yet to come.
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Dance Hurry Lame Pleasure
A child cannot pay for its mother’s milk.
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Children Milk Mom Pay
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
No man however great is greater than his people.
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Greatness Leadership Man People Position Value
When mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth
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Man Watch Young
A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.
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Himself Man Worth
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
The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use.
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Different Kind Language Price Submission World
When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don’t just turn it off one day.
CHINUA ACHEBE

Enough Oneself Strength Tradition

My weapon is literature.

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