I know there are writers who get up every morning and sit by their typewriter or word processor or pad of paper and wait to write. I don’t function that way. I go through a long period of gestation before I’m even ready to write.
WOLE SOYINKAArts 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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The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.
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My father used to tell me stories before I fell asleep. When the children would gather, at a certain point, I had a tendency to make up my own elementary variations on stories I had heard, or to invent totally new ones.
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The man dies in all those that keep silent.
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Religion has really spawned some monsters. It always has, historically. Go all the way back to the Inquisition, you know, the Crusades, the Jehad and so on.
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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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Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.
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Let’s say there are prospects for a new Nigeria, but I don’t think we have a new Nigeria yet.
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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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A human feast is an indifferent morsel to a god.
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We live in a materialist world, and materialism appeals so strongly to humanity, no matter where.
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There is something really horrific for any human being who feels he is being consumed by other people.
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The writer is the visionary of his people… He anticipates, he warns.
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Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.
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Some of us – poets are not exactly poets. We live sometimes – beyond the word.
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The media owes the responsibility to constantly tell the public the truth.
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