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Chinua Achebe Quotes: We have heard stories about white men who make the powerful guns and the strong drinks and took slaves away across the seas, but no one thought the stories were true.
         

We have heard stories about white men who make the powerful guns and the strong drinks and took slaves away across the seas, but no one thought the stories were true.


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



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One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.



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