The youth should come together to challenge the status quo. They must not give up.
WOLE SOYINKAFor me, justice is the prime condition of humanity.
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Intolerance has become, I think, the reigning ideology of the world today, the intolerance versus intolerance and it’s taken on lethal proportions.
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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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I believe that each writer must decide in which language he or she is most comfortable.
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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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The man dies in all those that keep silent.
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It’s the place to begin, always — to return to home, literally.
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But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That’s all.
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If man cannot, what god dare claim perfection?
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For me, a writer is already being the deuce of his mission, his occupation to society.
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We do not ask the mountain’s aid to crack a walnut.
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Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom.
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Culture is a matrix of infinite possibilities and choices. From within the same culture matrix we can extract arguments and strategies for the degradation and ennoblement of our species, for its enslavement or liberation, for the suppression of its productive potential or its enhancement.
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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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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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You accept whoever you are interacting with, directly, or indirectly.
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