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.
WOLE SOYINKAEverybody knows that fraternities are a normal culture in all colleges. It exists in all colleges. President Clinton was a member of a fraternity. In fact, anybody who goes to College in the United States is a member of a College fraternity. There is absolutely nothing evil or occultic about fraternity.
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I believe that each writer must decide in which language he or she is most comfortable.
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We live in a materialist world, and materialism appeals so strongly to humanity, no matter where.
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But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That’s all.
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There is something really horrific for any human being who feels he is being consumed by other people.
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I am convinced that Nigeria would have been a more highly developed country without the oil. I wished we’d never smelled the fumes of petroleum.
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The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.
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The media must be used effectively to reach the masses. You have to find a new language in which to address the people and demonstrate what is possible.
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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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A human feast is an indifferent morsel to a god.
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The writer is the visionary of his people… He anticipates, he warns.
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Romance is the sweetening of the soul With fragrance offered by the stricken heart.
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My father used to tell me stories before I fell asleep. When the children would gather, at a certain point, I had a tendency to make up my own elementary variations on stories I had heard, or to invent totally new ones.
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I think that feeling that if one believed absolutely in any cause, then one must have the confidence, the self-certainty, to go through with that particular course of action.
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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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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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And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others.
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The hand that dips into the bottom of the pot will eat the biggest snail.
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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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Writers are human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.
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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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Everybody knows that fraternities are a normal culture in all colleges. It exists in all colleges. President Clinton was a member of a fraternity. In fact, anybody who goes to College in the United States is a member of a College fraternity. There is absolutely nothing evil or occultic about fraternity.
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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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Sadness is twilight’s kiss on earth.
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If man cannot, what god dare claim perfection?
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I have no money to give to you but I have ideas and organizational capacity.
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And gradually they’re beginning to recognize the fact that there’s nothing more secure than a democratic, accountable, and participatory form of government. But it’s sunk in only theoretically, it has not yet sunk in completely in practical terms.
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