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It has always been quite apparent to me that no important story can fail to tell us something of value to us.

Chinua Achebe

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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Greatness Imagination Man Privilege Yourself
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
Most writers who are beginners, if they are honest with themselves, will admit that they are praying for a readership as they begin to write. But it should be the quality of the craft, not the audience, that should be the greatest motivating factor.
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Audience Beginning Factor Praying Writing
I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.
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Growth Life Old People Thinking
A coward may cover the ground with his words but when the time comes to fight he runs away.
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Coward Fight Run Time War
When mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth
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Man Watch Young
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
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
You do not know me,’ said Tortoise. ‘I am a changed man. I have learned that a man who makes trouble for others makes trouble for himself.
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Change Learning Myself
When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.
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Door Hard Time Himself Knock Suffering Worry
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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Break Children Live Prayer Wing
Nobody can teach me who I am.
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Myself Philosophy Teaching
A disease that has never been seen before cannot be cured with every-day herbs.
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Carry Cure Disease Hospital
A child cannot pay for its mother’s milk.
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Children Milk Mom Pay
Whenever you see a toad jumping in broad daylight, then know that something is after its life.
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Animal Frog Known Life See Yourself

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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