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A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.

Chinua Achebe

It is the storyteller who makes us what we are, who creates history. The storyteller creates the memory that the survivors must have – otherwise their surviving would have no meaning.
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Creation History Meaning Storyteller Survival
An angry man is always a stupid man.
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Angry Man Stupidity
The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don’t always know what you get at the other end. If you are not careful you could replace a bad government with one much worse!
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End Government Known Leadership Oneself Problem Worst
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
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
I am against people reaping where they have not sown. But we have a saying that if you want to eat a toad you should look for a fat and juicy one.
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Eat People Talk Yourself
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
Every lizard lies on its belly, so we cannot tell which has a belly-ache
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Animal Lying Philosophy
The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.
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Experience Learning Philosophy Wisdom
Women and music should not be dated.
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Date Music Woman
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
A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.
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Himself Man Worth
One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.
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Compromise Integrity Refusal Test True
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
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
The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.
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Clear Fools Himself Man Peace Togetherness White Winning

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