I believe that each writer must decide in which language he or she is most comfortable.
WOLE SOYINKAAs a global citizen, I sometimes feel like denying my identity.
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For me, justice is the prime condition of humanity.
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My definition of slavery is the deprivation of human volition, any form of relationship between two peoples which is based on the deprivation of volition of one side.
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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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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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For me, a writer is already being the deuce of his mission, his occupation to society.
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The media owes the responsibility to constantly tell the public the truth.
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Romance is the sweetening of the soul With fragrance offered by the stricken heart.
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To achieve any change in the minds of the youth, there must be reorientation in terms of materialistic tendencies, corruption and crime generally.
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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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But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That’s all.
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As a global citizen, I sometimes feel like denying my identity.
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The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.
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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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We live in a materialist world, and materialism appeals so strongly to humanity, no matter where.
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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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