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Every generation must recognize and embrace the task it is peculiarly designed by history and by providence to perform.

Chinua Achebe

The singer should sing well even if it is merely to himself, rather than dance badly for the whole world.
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Dance Singing World
People go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they fail to see what is there in front of them.
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Confirm Failure Head People See
As a rule I don’t like suffering to no purpose. Suffering should be creative, should give birth to something good and lovely.
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Creativity Love Purpose Rule Suffering
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
People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.
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Creation Inspirational People Story Success
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
Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story even if on the surface it’s far removed from your situation.
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Beginning Identify People Removal Situation Story Yourself
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
Every generation must find its mission and fulfill it, as Fanon said – or betray it. So it is not something that you can write up on the wall, saying this is what has to be done. Every generation has to discover what it needs to do.
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Discover Finding Fulfill Generation Mission Need
If one finger brings oil it soils the others.
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Fingering Oneself
Nobody can teach me who I am.
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Myself Philosophy Teaching
An angry man is always a stupid man.
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Angry Man Stupidity
Charity is the opium of the privileged.
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Charity Opium Privilege
Procrastination is a lazy man’s apology.
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Apology Man Perspective Procrastination
When brothers fight to death a stranger inherit their father’s estate.
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Brother Death Fight Profit Stranger
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

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