Things Fall Apart - Proverbs Flashcards
(19 cards)
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Okonkwo’s fame had brown like a bush fire in the harmattan
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…was like pouring grains of corn into a bag full of holes
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He grew rapidly like a yam tendril in the rainy season
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He felt like a drunken giant walking with the limbs of a mosquito
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A toad does not run in the daytime for nothing
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Our elders say that the sun will shine on those who stand before it shines on those who kneel under them
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When the moon is shining the cripple becomes hungry for walk
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A child’s fingers are not scalded by a piece of hot yam which its mother puts into its palm
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If one finger brought oil it soiled the others
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Never kill a man who says nothing
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There is nothing to fear from someone who shouts
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Men have learned to shoot without missing their mark and I have learned to fly without perching on a twig
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Zander – can you remember how Tortoise got his Bumpy Shell?
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Among the Igbo the art of conversation is regarded very highly
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Proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten
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Yam, the king of crops, was a man’s crop.
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‘Looking at a king’s mouth,’ said an old man, ‘one would think he never sucked at his mother’s breast.’
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The clan was like a lizard; if it lost its tail it soon grew another.
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Living fire begets cold, impotent ash
