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The writer is the visionary of his people… He anticipates, he warns.

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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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The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.
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Absence Criticism Freedom Greatest Threat
As a global citizen, I sometimes feel like denying my identity.
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I believe that each writer must decide in which language he or she is most comfortable.
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Culture is a matrix of infinite possibilities and choices. From within the same culture matrix we can extract arguments and strategies for the degradation and ennoblement of our species, for its enslavement or liberation, for the suppression of its productive potential or its enhancement.
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It’s the place to begin, always — to return to home, literally.
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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 youth should come together to challenge the status quo. They must not give up.
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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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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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If man cannot, what god dare claim perfection?
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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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The writer is the visionary of his people… He anticipates, he warns.
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Anticipate People Visionary Warm Water
For me, justice is the prime condition of humanity.
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Intolerance has always been with us, you know. The moment you have ideology, we have intolerance, whether it’s the secular ideology or, you know ideocratic ideology, which always brings with it some kind of intolerance.
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Very conscious of the fact that an effort was being made to destroy my mind, because I was deprived of books, deprived of any means of writing, deprived of human companionship. You never know how much you need it until you’re deprived of it.
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