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Great Quotes by Chinua Achebe
- The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that it's this or…
- You cannot plant greatness as you plant yams or maize. Who ever planted an iroko tree — the greatest tree in the forest? You may…
- No man however great is greater than his people
- There is that great proverb — that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.
- Privilege, you see, is one of the great adversaries of the imagination; it spreads a thick layer of adipose tissue over our sensitivity.
- A man who pays respect to the great paves the way for his own greatness
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