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When brothers fight to death a stranger inherit their father’s estate.

Chinua Achebe

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
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
It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is the mark on the face that sets one people apart from their neighbors.
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Direction Neighbor People Story
Nobody can teach me who I am. You can describe parts of me, but who I am – and what I need – is something I have to find out myself.
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Description Finding Myself Need Teaching
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
A debt may get mouldy, but it never decays.
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Debt Decay
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
People go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they fail to see what is there in front of them.
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Confirm Failure Head People See
A coward may cover the ground with his words but when the time comes to fight he runs away.
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Coward Fight Run Time War
Whatever music you beat on your drum there is somebody who can dance to it.
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Dance Finding Music Self Love 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
A disease that has never been seen before cannot be cured with every-day herbs.
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Carry Cure Disease Hospital
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
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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Apparent Important Ourselves Quite Value
In dealing with a man who thinks you are a fool, it is good sometimes to remind him that you know what he knows but have chosen to appear foolish for the sake of peace.
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Deal Fools Goodness Known Man Peace Thinking Yourself
Whenever you see a toad jumping in broad daylight, then know that something is after its life.
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Animal Frog Known Life See Yourself

When brothers fight to death a stranger inherit their father’s estate.

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