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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

Nigeria is what it is because its leaders are not what they should be.
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Government Leadership Politics
A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.
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Democracy Education Function Government Leadership Participate
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
One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.
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Compromise Integrity Refusal Test True
Let the kite perch and let the eagle perch too – If one says no to the other, let his wing break.
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Break Oneself Wings
Literature, whether handed down by word or mouth or in print, gives us a second handle on reality.
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Hands Literature Ourselves Reality
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
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.
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Development Finding Rural Thinking
When we are comfortable and inattentive, we run the risk of committing grave injustices absentmindedly.
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Attention Comfortable Commitment Grave Risk Run
When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground.
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Death Ground Library Man Old
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
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
What a man does not know is greater than he.
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Greatness Himself Man
Become familiar with your home, but know also about your neighbors. The young man who never went anywhere thinks his mother is the greatest cook.
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Cook Greatness Home Known Mom Neighbor
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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Earth Existence Ideal Myself Place
When a coward sees a man he can beat he becomes hungry for a fight.
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Competition Coward Fight Hungry Man See

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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