History teaches us to beware of the excitation of the liberated and the injustices that often accompany their righteous thirst for justice.
WOLE SOYINKAYou accept whoever you are interacting with, directly, or indirectly.
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Don’t take shadows too seriously. Reality is your only safety. Continue to reject illusion.
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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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A tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he pounces.
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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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Some of us – poets are not exactly poets. We live sometimes – beyond the word.
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You have the entire gamut of human experience captured in the mythology of the Yoruba. This is what makes the Yoruba mythology a natural source material for me in my creative endeavours.
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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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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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. . . as far as the regime is concerned, well, the play is sheer terror for them. Because they feel, How dare – how dare anybody lift his or her voice in criticism against us? We have the guns. Their level of paranoia and power-drunkenness is unbelievable.
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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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For me, a writer is already being the deuce of his mission, his occupation to society.
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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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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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But when you’re deprived of it for a lengthy period then you value human companionship. But you have to survive and so you devise all kinds of mental exercises and it’s amazing.
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But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That’s all.
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