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An artist in my view is always afraid of extremists; he is always afraid of those who claim to have found the ultimate solution to any question.

Chinua Achebe

No man however great is greater than his people.
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Greatness Leadership Man People Position Value
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
Literature, whether handed down by word or mouth or in print, gives us a second handle on reality.
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Hands Literature Ourselves Reality
If you have leaders who are prepared to incite group against group it is very easy to manufacture reasons and excuses.
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Easy Leadership Manufacture Preparation Reason Yourself
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
A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.
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Himself Man Trouble
When brothers fight to death a stranger inherit their father’s estate.
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Brother Death Fight Profit Stranger
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
When mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth
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Man Watch Young
Every lizard lies on its belly, so we cannot tell which has a belly-ache
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Animal Lying Philosophy
Charity is the opium of the privileged.
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Charity Opium Privilege
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
The man that brings ant-infested faggots into his hut should not grumble when lizards begin to pay him a visit.
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Beginning Himself Man Pay Visit
He is a fool who treats his brother worse than a stranger.
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Brother Fools Treat Worst
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
We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own.
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Humanity Ourselves Value

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