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In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasn’t perhaps completely whole, that something was left out.

Chinua Achebe

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
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
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
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
Charity is the opium of the privileged.
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Charity Opium Privilege
While we do our good works let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.
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Charity Forget Goodness Lying Necessary Reality Solution Work
Among the Igbo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten.
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Art Conversation Eat Word
Every lizard lies on its belly, so we cannot tell which has a belly-ache
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Animal Lying Philosophy
We shall all live. We pray for life, children, a good harvest and happiness. You will have what is good for you and I will have what is good for me. Let the kite perch and let the egret perch too. If one says no to the other, let his wing break.
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Break Children Live Prayer Wing
When we are comfortable and inattentive, we run the risk of committing grave injustices absentmindedly.
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Attention Comfortable Commitment Grave Risk Run
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
No matter how prosperous a man was, if he was unable to rule his women and his children (and especially his women) he was not really a man.
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Man Prosperity Rule Woman
It is the storyteller who makes us what we are, who creates history. The storyteller creates the memory that the survivors must have – otherwise their surviving would have no meaning.
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Creation History Meaning Storyteller Survival
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
Let the kite perch and let the eagle perch too – If one says no to the other, let his wing break.
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Break Oneself Wings
In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasn’t perhaps completely whole, that something was left out.
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Fake Myself Religion Story Truth

In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasn’t perhaps completely whole, that something was left out.

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In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasn’t perhaps completely whole, that something was left out.

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