The man dies in all those that keep silent.
WOLE SOYINKAYou 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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Colonialism bred an innate arrogance, but when you undertake that sort of imperial adventure, that arrogance gives way to a feeling of accommodativeness. You take pride in your openness.
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Sadness is twilight’s kiss on earth.
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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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A human feast is an indifferent morsel to a god.
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The media owes the responsibility to constantly tell the public the truth.
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Governance can dig itself into a huge hole and not even know it’s in there.
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But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That’s all.
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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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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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Be yourself. Ultimately just be yourself.
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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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Don’t take shadows too seriously. Reality is your only safety. Continue to reject illusion.
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I believe that each writer must decide in which language he or she is most comfortable.
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Romance is the sweetening of the soul With fragrance offered by the stricken heart.
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I have one abiding religion-human liberty.
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