It is only the story. . . that saves our progeny from blundering like blind beggars into the … - Chinua Achebe

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I believe God rules all by his divine providence and that the stars by his permission are instruments.

Chinua Achebe

It is only the story. . . that saves our progeny from blundering like blind beggars into the spikes of the cactus fence. The story is our escort;without it,we are blind. Does the blind man own his escort?No,neither do we the story;rather,it is the story that owns us.

Beggars, Cactus, Doe, Man, Men, Story

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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.

Glorify, Historian, Historians, Hunters, Lions, Proverb

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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