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Romance is the sweetening of the soul With fragrance offered by the stricken heart.

Wole Soyinka

The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.
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Absence Criticism Freedom Greatest Threat
Some of us – poets are not exactly poets. We live sometimes – beyond the word.
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Beyond Exactly Live Some Poet Sometimes World
When you are looking for corruption, you should look at the entire stratum of the society, while some forms of corruption are direct, others are indirect.
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Corruption Direct Entire Form Look Other Society Some
Arts and the Sciences are a natural symbiosis. They stem from the same human existential impulse – exploration. Exploration of what lies beneath the surface, and re-confuguration of elements of what we call reality.
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Existential Exploration Human Impulse Natural Same Science Stem Symbiosis
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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Actually Consider Gestation Important Process Put Sitmsown Word
I can look violence in the face and either reject or accept it.
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Accept Can Either Face Reject Took Violence
. . . as far as the regime is concerned, well, the play is sheer terror for them. Because they feel, How dare – how dare anybody lift his or her voice in criticism against us? We have the guns. Their level of paranoia and power-drunkenness is unbelievable.
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Concern Far Feel Play Regime Sheer Terror Well
But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That’s why I call it the most social of the various art forms.
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Audience Base Both Communication Effect Image Multimedia Nature Theatre Wider
No man beholds his mother’s womb Yet who denies it’s there? Coiled To the navel of the world is that Endless cord that links us all To the great Origin. If I lose my way. The trailing cord will bring me to the roots.
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All Behold Collect Denies Endless Link Man Mother Navel No Us Womb World
I am a very curious person; I’ll always ask: is this thing true, is it not true? And I use my own means to investigate and come to my conclusion.
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Always Ask Curious Person Thing True Very
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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Cycle Eternal Evil People Pessimistic Recognizing Say Some
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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Because Degree Fact Figure Humanity Mythological Mythology Ninth Own Person Rarely Sake Theatre
I have one abiding religion-human liberty.
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Abide Body Have Human One Religion
Writers are human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.
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Appear Human Other Shudder Sometimes Think Winter
See, even despite pious statements to the contrary, much of the industrialized world has not yet come to terms with the recognition of the fallacy of what I call the strong man syndrome.
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Come Contrary Despite Even Fallacy Industrialized Pious Recognition See Statement Term World
You accept whoever you are interacting with, directly, or indirectly.
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Accept Direct Indirectly Interact Whoever

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