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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
Nobody can teach me who I am.
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Myself Philosophy Teaching
A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.
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Himself Man Worth
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
When brothers fight to death a stranger inherit their father’s estate.
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Brother Death Fight Profit Stranger
What a man does not know is greater than he.
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Greatness Himself Man
The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.
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Damage Repair Time
An angry man is always a stupid man.
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Angry Man Stupidity
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
One reason why I am quite angry with what is happening in Nigeria today is that everything has collapsed. If I decide to go back now, there will be so many problems – where will I find the physical therapy and other things that I now require?
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Angry Collapse Quit Reason Therapy Trouble
As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us.
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Oneself Peace People Understand
When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.
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Mouth Old Ourselves People Sweet
One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.
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Compromise Integrity Refusal Test True
We do not seek to hurt any man, but if any man seeks to hurt us may he break his neck.
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Break Hurt Man Neck Seek
He is a fool who treats his brother worse than a stranger.
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Brother Fools Treat Worst
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

There is nothing to fear from someone who shouts.

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