If you don't like someone's story, write your own. Nobody can teach me who i am, and what i need is something i have to find out myself. It is the story maker who makes us what we are, who creates history; the storyteller creates the memory that the survivors must have-otherwise their surviving would have no meaning.
We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own. As an Igbo proverb goes "onye ji onye n'ani ji onwe ya"; he who will hold another down in the mud must stay in the mud to keep him down.When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you just don't turn it off one day.
When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat, he tells you not to worry because he brought his own stool. While we do good works, let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.
"that we are surrounded by deep mysteries is known to all but the incurably ignorant"
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