It is the human potentials that interest me. I travel and everywhere I go I am amazed at the presence of Nigerians. The intelligence, integrity, productivity, initiative.
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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Mythology can be used, and has been used, even to re-state, you know, the very urgent problems of the world.
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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 don’t know any other way to live but to wake up everyday armed with my convictions, not yielding them to the threat of danger and to the power and force of people who might despise me.
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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 have no money to give to you but I have ideas and organizational capacity.
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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 have one abiding religion-human liberty.
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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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We live in a materialist world, and materialism appeals so strongly to humanity, no matter where.
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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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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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The hand that dips into the bottom of the pot will eat the biggest snail.
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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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Sadness is twilight’s kiss on earth.
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The media owes the responsibility to constantly tell the public the truth.
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