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?
WOLE SOYINKAI think that feeling that if one believed absolutely in any cause, then one must have the confidence, the self-certainty, to go through with that particular course of action.
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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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I’m not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning, put a piece of paper in their typewriter machine and start writing. That I’ve never understood.
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My understanding of the creative process is simply that all cultures and all concerns meet at a certain point, the human point in which everything is related to one another. That has been my creative experience.
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I have one abiding religion-human liberty.
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Romance is the sweetening of the soul With fragrance offered by the stricken heart.
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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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We do not ask the mountain’s aid to crack a walnut.
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The youth should come together to challenge the status quo. They must not give up.
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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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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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For me, justice is the prime condition of humanity.
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And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others.
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If man cannot, what god dare claim perfection?
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The man dies in all those that keep silent.
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Intolerance has always been with us, you know. The moment you have ideology, we have intolerance, whether it’s the secular ideology or, you know ideocratic ideology, which always brings with it some kind of intolerance.
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