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Chinua Achebe

If you don’t like someone’s story, write your own.
CHINUA ACHEBE

Inspirational Motivational Writing Yourself
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
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
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
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 problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don’t always know what you get at the other end. If you are not careful you could replace a bad government with one much worse!
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End Government Known Leadership Oneself Problem Worst
When mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth
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Man Watch Young
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
The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.
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Damage Repair Time
Most writers who are beginners, if they are honest with themselves, will admit that they are praying for a readership as they begin to write. But it should be the quality of the craft, not the audience, that should be the greatest motivating factor.
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Audience Beginning Factor Praying Writing
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
The sun will shine on those who stand before it shines on those who kneel under them.
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Motivational Shine Stand Sun
A child cannot pay for its mother’s milk.
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Children Milk Mom Pay
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
A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.
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Democracy Education Function Government Leadership Participate
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

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