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Wole Soyinka

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
I never hesitated, as a student, in embracing the necessity of violence. In South Africa, I didn’t just accept it; I looked forward to it as a mission.
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Accept Country Entrance Forward Hesitate Look Mission Necessity Student Violence
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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Action Anti Attitude Create Distraction Gay Insincerity Legislator Like Lot Mobilise Try
Everybody knows that fraternities are a normal culture in all colleges. It exists in all colleges. President Clinton was a member of a fraternity. In fact, anybody who goes to College in the United States is a member of a College fraternity. There is absolutely nothing evil or occultic about fraternity.
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All College Cultural Everybody Fraternities Know Normal Wexist
You have the entire gamut of human experience captured in the mythology of the Yoruba. This is what makes the Yoruba mythology a natural source material for me in my creative endeavours.
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Capture Entire Experience Gamut Human Make Mythology Natural Yoruba
Very conscious of the fact that an effort was being made to destroy my mind, because I was deprived of books, deprived of any means of writing, deprived of human companionship. You never know how much you need it until you’re deprived of it.
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Being Book Conscious Deprive Destroy Effort Fact Made Mean Mind Very Writing
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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Learn Machine Morning Paper Piece Put Start Typewriter Writer Writing
There is something really horrific for any human being who feels he is being consumed by other people.
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Consume Feel Horrific Human Being Other People Really Sometimes
I 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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Absolute Believe Cause Certainty Confidence Feel Must One Self Think Through
Governance can dig itself into a huge hole and not even know it’s in there.
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Dig Even Governance Huge Itself Know There
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
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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Accompany Beware Christ Excitation History Injustice Justice Liberate Other Righteous Tech
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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Always Back Crusades Go Historical Inquisition Know Monster Really Religion Some Swawned Way
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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Certain Concern Creative Culture Point Process Simply Understanding
I cannot accept the definition of collective good as articulated by a privileged minority in society, especially when that minority is in power.
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Accept Articulated Collective Definition Good Minority Power Privilege Society Specially
But when you’re deprived of it for a lengthy period then you value human companionship. But you have to survive and so you devise all kinds of mental exercises and it’s amazing.
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All Companionship Deprive Devise Human Kind Length Period Survive

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