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.
WOLE SOYINKAAlfred 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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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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I cannot accept the definition of collective good as articulated by a privileged minority in society, especially when that minority is in power.
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Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.
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I said: “A tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he pounces”. In other words: a tiger does not stand in the forest and say: “I am a tiger”. When you pass where the tiger has walked before, you see the skeleton of the duiker, you know that some tigritude has been emanated there.
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The youth should come together to challenge the status quo. They must not give up.
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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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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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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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The media owes the responsibility to constantly tell the public the truth.
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Each time I think Ive created time for myself, along comes a throwback to disrupt my private space.
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The writer is the visionary of his people… He anticipates, he warns.
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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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Governance can dig itself into a huge hole and not even know it’s in there.
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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’m not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning, put a piece of paper in their typewriter machine and start writing. That I’ve never understood.
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