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A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.

Chinua Achebe

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
Each of my books is different. Deliberately. I wanted to create my society, my people, in their fullness.
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Book Creation Different Myself People
The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.
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Damage Repair Time
Art is man’s constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.
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Art Creation Effort Himself Reality
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
If a child washed his hands, he could eat with kings.
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Children Deep Eat Hands King Value Wash
If you don’t like someone’s story, write your own.
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Inspirational Motivational Writing Yourself
The sun will shine on those who stand before it shines on those who kneel under them.
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Motivational Shine Stand Sun
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
If one finger brings oil it soils the others.
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Fingering Oneself
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 brothers fight to death a stranger inherit their father’s estate.
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Brother Death Fight Profit Stranger
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
We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own. The Igbo, always practical, put it concretely in their proverb Onye ji onye n’ani ji onwe ya: ‘He who will hold another down in the mud must stay in the mud to keep him down.’
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Himself Humanity Moral Practical Stay Value
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
In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasn’t perhaps completely whole, that something was left out.
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Fake Myself Religion Story Truth

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