If man cannot, what god dare claim perfection?
WOLE SOYINKABut theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That’s why I call it the most social of the various art forms.
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For me, justice is the prime condition of humanity.
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But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That’s all.
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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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Romance is the sweetening of the soul With fragrance offered by the stricken heart.
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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.
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The writer is the visionary of his people… He anticipates, he warns.
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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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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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The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.
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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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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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Each time I think Ive created time for myself, along comes a throwback to disrupt my private space.
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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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Governance can dig itself into a huge hole and not even know it’s in there.
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Intolerance has become, I think, the reigning ideology of the world today, the intolerance versus intolerance and it’s taken on lethal proportions.
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