There is no story that is not true.
CHINUA ACHEBEWhen a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don’t just turn it off one day.
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A coward may cover the ground with his words but when the time comes to fight he runs away.
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When a mad man walks naked, it is his kinsmen who feel shame, not himself.
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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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The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.
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When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands.
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A debt may get mouldy, but it never decays.
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If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all.
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Storytellers are a threat. They threaten all champions of control, they frighten usurpers of the right-to-freedom of the human spirit — in state, in church or mosque, in party congress, in the university or wherever.
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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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Do not be in a hurry to rush into the pleasures of the world like the young antelope who danced herself lame when the main dance was yet to come.
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If you don’t like someone’s story, write your own.
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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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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.
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The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use.
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A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.
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An angry man is always a stupid man.
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A man who does not lick his lips, can he blame the harmattan for drying them?
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It is praiseworthy to be brave and fearless, but sometimes it is better to be a coward. We often stand in the compound of a coward to point at the ruins where a brave man used to live.
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Dancing is very important nowadays. No girl will look at you if you can’t dance.
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The world is large,” said Okonkwo. “I have even heard that in some tribes a man’s children belong to his wife and her family.” “That cannot be,” said Machi. “You might as well say that the woman lies on top of the man when they are making the babies.
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Procrastination is a lazy man’s apology.
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One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.
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What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens – whether people are of a different ethnicity or gender.
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Just think of the work you’ve set yourself to do, and do it as well as you can.
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The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.
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We do not seek to hurt any man, but if any man seeks to hurt us may he break his neck.
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