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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

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
As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us.
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Oneself Peace People Understand
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
There is nothing to fear from someone who shouts.
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Character Fear Man Nature Oneself Shout
There is that great proverb – that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.
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Deep Glorify Greatness Hunt Proverb Story
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
A debt may get mouldy, but it never decays.
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Debt Decay
Nobody can teach me who I am.
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Myself Philosophy Teaching
Nigeria is what it is because its leaders are not what they should be.
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Government Leadership Politics
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
Charity is the opium of the privileged.
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Charity Opium Privilege
If you don’t like someone’s story, write your own.
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Inspirational Motivational Writing Yourself
There is a moral obligation, I think, not to ally oneself with power against the powerless.
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Moral Obligation Power Thinking
What a man does not know is greater than he.
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Greatness Himself Man
If I hold her hand she says, ‘Don’t touch!’ If I hold her foot she says ‘Don’t touch!’ But when I hold her waist-beads she pretends not to know.
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Foot Hands Hold Myself Pretend
The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.
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Experience Learning Philosophy Wisdom

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.

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