705 quotes by nigerian authors for you to enjoy

What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens - whether people are of a different ethnicity or gender. Chinua Achebe

Needs People Gender Country Citizens Fair Different Whether Ethnicity

The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair. Chinua Achebe

Sometimes Year Ten Take Repair Years Done Twenty Damage

A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself. Chinua Achebe

Man Trouble Others Also Himself Makes Making Who

Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth. Wole Soyinka

Truth Writing Wish Books Those Suppress Terror Forms Who

I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more difficult is to identify with someone you don't see, who's very far away, who's a different color, who eats a different kind of food. When you begin to do that then literature is really performing its wonders. Chinua Achebe

Food You Yourself Somebody Difficult Tell Kind See Eats Someone More Color Students Performing Like Identify Looks Very Begin Wonders Different Door Literature Different Color Different Kind Far Far Away Then Really Next Next Door Who Away

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 maybe that - you have just one large statement; it is this. Chinua Achebe

Great You Problem Diversity Statement Through Simplify Instead Idea Stereotype Going Maybe Just Just One Large Whole

Being a 'good man' is something you do, not something you are. Luvvie Ajayi

Good You Man Good Man Something Being

I belong to everybody, and I belong to nobody. Muhammadu Buhari

Everybody Nobody Belong

Remember, the man who is poor is not the man that has no money, but one without a dream. They are suffering that have no dream. They are poor that have no dream. T. B. Joshua

Man Suffering Money Remember Dream Without Poor Who

Your papers are marked when you go to school, but you can't mark the character. T. B. Joshua

Character You School Mark Marked Papers Go Your

Our time here is magic! It's the only space you have to realize whatever it is that is beautiful, whatever is true, whatever is great, whatever is potential, whatever is rare, whatever is unique, in. It's the only space. Ben Okri

Inspirational Beautiful Time Great You Space Rare Whatever Our Our Time Magic Only Potential True Realize Unique Here

Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story even if on the surface it's far removed from your situation. Chinua Achebe

You Yourself People Situation Once See Allow Identify Surface Begin Story Might Far Then Your Even

Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing again. We have to begin to learn to rule ourselves again. Chinua Achebe

My brothers and sisters, we are all winners. In this context there is no victor and no vanquished. We have demonstrated, even in our diversity, the progress of Nigeria remains paramount for all. Goodluck Jonathan

Progress Diversity Our Paramount Vanquished Brothers Brothers And Sisters Winners Remains Context Sisters Victor Even Nigeria

I was successful materially, but I know life is much more than worldly success. I saw all these blessings God had given me. The way to give thanks is obedience to God. Hakeem Olajuwon

Life Success God Me Obedience Thanks Worldly Saw Way Give Given More Had Know Blessings Than Much Successful

There's a blessing in everything that happens to us. Kamaru Usman

Blessing Everything Happens Us

People are prospering from being unapologetically offensive, trite, and stupid. And we are tweeting ourselves into high blood pressure and ulcers trying to tell them to do better... Being a pompous nut biscuit is now a publicity strategy, and I don't know what we can do to end the madness. Luvvie Ajayi

People Madness Better Pressure Stupid Strategy Nut Ourselves Tell High High Blood Pressure Trite Prospering Know Ulcer Blood Blood Pressure End Offensive Trying Being Pompous Them Tweeting Now Publicity

Avoidance has never been a great tactic in solving any problem. For most situations in life, not addressing what's going on only makes matters worse. Luvvie Ajayi

Life Great Problem Matters Addressing Worse Solving Only Tactic Never Most Makes Been Any Going Situations Avoidance

The work of healing is not my work, but by faith, healing is done. The work of deliverance, great and mighty deliverance, is not my work but is my faith in Him. It is not the works of righteousness which I have done, but according to His grace. I am a product of His grace. T. B. Joshua

Work Faith Great Healing Grace Righteousness Deliverance Him Am His According Done Which Mighty Product Works

You can make something out of every unfinished story and every rejection if you work at it. Tomi Adeyemi

Work You Unfinished Every Rejection Out Something Make Story

Colonialism bred an innate arrogance, but when you undertake that sort of imperial adventure, that arrogance gives way to a feeling of accommodativeness. You take pride in your openness. Wole Soyinka

You Arrogance Pride Colonialism Feeling Way Gives Imperial Take Adventure Openness Sort Undertake Bred Your Innate

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