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The singer should sing well even if it is merely to himself, rather than dance badly for the whole world.

Chinua Achebe

When a man is at peace with his gods and ancestors, his harvest will be good or bad according to the strength of his arm.
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Arm God Goodness Harvest Man Peace Strength
If you don’t like someone’s story, write your own. If you don’t like what somebody says, say what it is you don’t like.
CHINUA ACHEBE

Expression Feeling Story Talk
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
An angry man is always a stupid man.
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Angry Man Stupidity
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
If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all.
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Hear Understand Yourself
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
Every lizard lies on its belly, so we cannot tell which has a belly-ache
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Animal Lying Philosophy
I think not just Nigeria but I think the whole of Africa has to turn back to the rural areas and that’s where the majority of the citizens are and that’s where the engine of of development has to be found.
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Development Finding Rural Thinking
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
When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.
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Door Hard Time Himself Knock Suffering Worry
What a man does not know is greater than he.
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Greatness Himself Man
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
Dancing is very important nowadays. No girl will look at you if you can’t dance.
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Dance Important See Yourself
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
The lizard that jumped from a high Iroko tree to the ground said he would praise himself if no-one else did.
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Deep Lizard Philosophy Praise

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