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.
WOLE SOYINKAThe youth should come together to challenge the status quo. They must not give up.
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I have no money to give to you but I have ideas and organizational capacity.
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The youth should come together to challenge the status quo. They must not give up.
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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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Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.
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What I teach is literary criticism and comparative literature and so on and that’s my function, but from time to time it’s possible for me actually to help a writer. I read something and something strikes me then, I feel I can talk to that writer about it.
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For me, a writer is already being the deuce of his mission, his occupation to society.
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Romance is the sweetening of the soul With fragrance offered by the stricken heart.
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When I say war, I’m not talking about mental war; I’m talking about totally eliminating the obstacles to transformation of our children.
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A human feast is an indifferent morsel to a god.
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Sadness is twilight’s kiss on earth.
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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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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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We all have our individual artistic temperaments as well as partisanships in creative directions. And we have strong opinions on the merits of the products of our occupation.
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I believe that each writer must decide in which language he or she is most comfortable.
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Alfred Nobel regretted that his invention, dynamite, was converted to degrading use, hence his creation of the Nobel Prize, as the humanist counter to the destructive power of his genius.
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