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But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That’s all.

Wole Soyinka

Looking at faces of people, one gets the feeling there’s a lot of work to be done.
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Done Face Feel Get Look Lot People Work
Don’t take shadows too seriously. Reality is your only safety. Continue to reject illusion.
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Continue Illusion Reality Reject Safety Seriously Shadow
For me, justice is the prime condition of humanity.
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Condition For Humanity Justice Prime
When a leader encourages the culture of impunity, the society is lost and it makes the work harder for the rest of us.
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Culture Encourage Harder Impurity Lost Make Rest Society Us World
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
I began writing early – very, very early… I was already writing short stories for the radio and selling poems to poetry and art festivals; I was involved in school plays; I wrote essays, so there was no definite moment when I said, ‘Now I’m a writer.’ I’ve always been a writer.
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Began Early Festival Poem Poetry Selling Short Story Very Writing
You cannot live a normal existence if you haven’t taken care of a problem that affects your life and affects the lives of others, values that you hold which in fact define your very existence.
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Care Effect Existence Life Live Normal Other Problem Taken
A human feast is an indifferent morsel to a god.
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Gfeast God Human Indifference Morsel
Be yourself. Ultimately just be yourself.
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Be Just Ultimate Yourself
The media owes the responsibility to constantly tell the public the truth.
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Constantly Media Public Responsibility Truth
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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Always Been Ideology Intolerance Moment Secular Wether
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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Antagonism Anthisesis Even First Form Hardly Power Resolve Thing Truth Well
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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Choice Culture Matrix Poosisblity
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.
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Every Get Know Morning Paid Paper Processor Typewriter Wait Word Write Writer
Sadness is twilight’s kiss on earth.
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Earth Sadness Twilight
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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But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That’s all.

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