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My son even if you want to fall, at least fall where your bones can be gathered.

Chinua Achebe

Wisdom is like a goatskin bag; every man carries his own.
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Carry Himself Man Wisdom
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
It is praiseworthy to be brave and fearless, but sometimes it is better to be a coward. We often stand in the compound of a coward to point at the ruins where a brave man used to live.
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Better Brave Coward Live Praise Worth
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 don’t like to see mistakes on the typewriter. I like a perfect script. On the typewriter I will sometimes leave a phrase that is not right, not what I want, simply because to change it would be a bit messy.
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Change Mistake Myself Perfection Script See Simplicity
He is a fool who treats his brother worse than a stranger.
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Brother Fools Treat Worst
A disease that has never been seen before cannot be cured with every-day herbs.
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Carry Cure Disease Hospital
Women and music should not be dated.
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Date Music Woman
If a child washed his hands, he could eat with kings.
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Children Deep Eat Hands King Value Wash
People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that’s the time to do something about it, not when it’s around your neck.
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Finding Neck People Time Water Yourself
My son even if you want to fall, at least fall where your bones can be gathered.
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Bone Fall Myself Son
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
When mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth
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Man Watch Young
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
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
Now one of the changes that must come to Africa is the idea of limited rule, I mean in term of how long one leader can stay in power. The era of president for life is not gone yet but it is on its way out and that is one of the problems with Mugabe and others.
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Change Ideas Leadership Limitation Power Problem Stay

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