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Nobody can teach me who I am.

Chinua Achebe

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
When a mad man walks naked, it is his kinsmen who feel shame, not himself.
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Feeling Himself Madness Man Naked Shame
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
A goat does not eat into a hen’s stomach no matter how friendly the two may be.
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Friendship Goat Hen Stomach
When mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth
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Man Watch Young
You do not know me,’ said Tortoise. ‘I am a changed man. I have learned that a man who makes trouble for others makes trouble for himself.
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Change Learning Myself
The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.
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Experience Learning Philosophy Wisdom
When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands.
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Beginning Education Land Learning Myself People
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
When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.
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Mouth Old Ourselves People Sweet
Dancing is very important nowadays. No girl will look at you if you can’t dance.
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Dance Important See Yourself
Privilege, you see, is one of the great adversaries of the imagination; it spreads a thick layer of adipose tissue over our sensitivity.
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Greatness Imagination Man Privilege Yourself
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
Just think of the work you’ve set yourself to do, and do it as well as you can.
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Thinking Work Yourself
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
No man however great is greater than his people.
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Greatness Leadership Man People Position Value

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