“The sun will shine on those who stand before it shines on those who kneel under them.”

— Chinua Achebe , book Things Fall Apart

Source: Things Fall Apart (1958), Chapter 1 (p. 11)

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Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic 1930–2013

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