I believe in the complexity of the human story, and that there's no way you can tell that … - Chinua Achebe

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Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.

Chinua Achebe

I believe in the complexity of the human story, and that there's no way you can tell that story in one way and say, 'this is it. ' Always there will be someone who can tell it differently depending on where they are standing. . . this is the way I think the world's stories should be told: from many different perspectives.

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A man who calls his kinsmen to a feast does not do so to save them from starving. They all have food in their own homes. When we gather together in the moonlit village ground it is not because of the moon. Every man can see it in his own compound. We come together because it is good for kinsmen to do so.

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To answer oppression with appropriate resistance requires knowledge of two kinds: in the first place, self-knowledge by the victim, which means awareness that oppression exists, an awareness that the victim has fallen from a great height of glory or promise into the present depths; secondly, the victim must know who the enemy is. He must know his oppressor's real name, not an alias, a pseudonym, or a nom de plume!

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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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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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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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