When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don’t just turn it off one day.
CHINUA ACHEBEWomen and music should not be dated.
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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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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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The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.
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When brothers fight to death a stranger inherit their father’s estate.
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As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us.
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Whenever you see a toad jumping in broad daylight, then know that something is after its life.
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Each of my books is different. Deliberately. I wanted to create my society, my people, in their fullness.
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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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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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The language of young men is pull down and destroy; but an old man speaks of conciliation.
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Literature, whether handed down by word or mouth or in print, gives us a second handle on reality.
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My weapon is literature.
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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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