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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.

Wole Soyinka

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
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
We live in a materialist world, and materialism appeals so strongly to humanity, no matter where.
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Appeal Humanity Live Materialist Matter Strongly
. . . as far as the regime is concerned, well, the play is sheer terror for them. Because they feel, How dare – how dare anybody lift his or her voice in criticism against us? We have the guns. Their level of paranoia and power-drunkenness is unbelievable.
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Concern Far Feel Play Regime Sheer Terror Well
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
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
The media owes the responsibility to constantly tell the public the truth.
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Constantly Media Public Responsibility Truth
The youth should come together to challenge the status quo. They must not give up.
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Challenge Come Give Must Status Together Youth
For me, a writer is already being the deuce of his mission, his occupation to society.
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Already Being Deuce Mission Occupation Society Writer
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 rarely use mythology for its own sake because, as a theatre person, the mythological figures are in fact humanity to the ninth degree and Yoruba mythology in particular has fascination of being one of the most humanised mythologies in the world.
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Because Degree Fact Figure Humanity Mythological Mythology Ninth Own Person Rarely Sake Theatre
I have no money to give to you but I have ideas and organizational capacity.
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Capacity Give Idea Money Organizational You
If man cannot, what god dare claim perfection?
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Claim Dare God Man Perfection
No man beholds his mother’s womb Yet who denies it’s there? Coiled To the navel of the world is that Endless cord that links us all To the great Origin. If I lose my way. The trailing cord will bring me to the roots.
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All Behold Collect Denies Endless Link Man Mother Navel No Us Womb World
Let’s say there are prospects for a new Nigeria, but I don’t think we have a new Nigeria yet.
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Country People Person Prospect Say Yet
A tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he pounces.
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Does Proclaim Pounce Tiger Tigribute

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