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.
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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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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I never hesitated, as a student, in embracing the necessity of violence. In South Africa, I didn’t just accept it; I looked forward to it as a mission.
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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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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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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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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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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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If man cannot, what god dare claim perfection?
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We do not ask the mountain’s aid to crack a walnut.
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You accept whoever you are interacting with, directly, or indirectly.
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I have one abiding religion-human liberty.
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The youth should come together to challenge the status quo. They must not give up.
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Be yourself. Ultimately just be yourself.
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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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Romance is the sweetening of the soul With fragrance offered by the stricken heart.
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