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A child cannot pay for its mother’s milk.
Chinua Achebe
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Chinua Achebe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1930
Born: November 16
Died: 2013
Died: March 22
Essayist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Philosopher
Poet
Short Story Writer
University Teacher
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Albert Chinualumogu Achebe
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It always surprised him when he thought of it later that he did not sink under the load of despair.
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Do you blame a vulture for perching over a carcass?
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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 good leader for instance is somebody like Nelson Mandela. I do not have seen such people coming every generation, maybe every ten generations, every hundred generations. People who are miracle workers.
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