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I rarely use mythology for its own sake because, as a theatre person, the mythological figures are in fact humanity to the ninth degree and Yoruba mythology in particular has fascination of being one of the most humanised mythologies in the world.

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The youth should come together to challenge the status quo. They must not give up.
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I consider the process of gestation just as important as when you’re actually sitting down putting words to the paper.
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There’s a lot of insincerity about the actions of our legislators; they create distractions – like this anti-gay law you alluded to – and try to mobilise, to exacerbate people’s emotions. Until the legislators started making laws, people minded, generally, their own business.
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Romance is the sweetening of the soul With fragrance offered by the stricken heart.
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The media owes the responsibility to constantly tell the public the truth.
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And gradually they’re beginning to recognize the fact that there’s nothing more secure than a democratic, accountable, and participatory form of government. But it’s sunk in only theoretically, it has not yet sunk in completely in practical terms.
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Well, some people say I’m pessimistic because I recognize the eternal cycle of evil. All I say is, look at the history of mankind right up to this moment and what do you find?
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Each time I think Ive created time for myself, along comes a throwback to disrupt my private space.
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Looking at faces of people, one gets the feeling there’s a lot of work to be done.
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What I teach is literary criticism and comparative literature and so on and that’s my function, but from time to time it’s possible for me actually to help a writer. I read something and something strikes me then, I feel I can talk to that writer about it.
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Mythology can be used, and has been used, even to re-state, you know, the very urgent problems of the world.
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Don’t take shadows too seriously. Reality is your only safety. Continue to reject illusion.
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I have no money to give to you but I have ideas and organizational capacity.
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You cannot live a normal existence if you haven’t taken care of a problem that affects your life and affects the lives of others, values that you hold which in fact define your very existence.
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The writer is the visionary of his people… He anticipates, he warns.
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History teaches us to beware of the excitation of the liberated and the injustices that often accompany their righteous thirst for justice.
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