When brothers fight to death a stranger inherit their father’s estate.
CHINUA ACHEBEIf a child washed his hands, he could eat with kings.
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A child cannot pay for its mother’s milk.
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Whatever music you beat on your drum there is somebody who can dance to it.
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Only the story can continue beyond the war and the warrior. The story outlives the sound of the war drum… The story is our escort. Without it we are blind… It is the thing that sets us apart from cattle.
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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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When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don’t just turn it off one day.
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Become familiar with your home, but know also about your neighbors. The young man who never went anywhere thinks his mother is the greatest cook.
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An angry man is always a stupid man.
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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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Wisdom is like a goatskin bag; every man carries his own.
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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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The sun will shine on those who stand before it shines on those who kneel under them.
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If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all.
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When we are comfortable and inattentive, we run the risk of committing grave injustices absentmindedly.
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I prefer to go on trying all kinds of things, not to be told, This is the way it is done.
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A disease that has never been seen before cannot be cured with every-day herbs.
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