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We live in a materialist world, and materialism appeals so strongly to humanity, no matter where.

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If man cannot, what god dare claim perfection?
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I think that feeling that if one believed absolutely in any cause, then one must have the confidence, the self-certainty, to go through with that particular course of action.
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Romance is the sweetening of the soul With fragrance offered by the stricken heart.
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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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Looking at faces of people, one gets the feeling there’s a lot of work to be done.
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I can look violence in the face and either reject or accept it.
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We live in a materialist world, and materialism appeals so strongly to humanity, no matter where.
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I said: “A tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he pounces”. In other words: a tiger does not stand in the forest and say: “I am a tiger”. When you pass where the tiger has walked before, you see the skeleton of the duiker, you know that some tigritude has been emanated there.
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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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Religion has really spawned some monsters. It always has, historically. Go all the way back to the Inquisition, you know, the Crusades, the Jehad and so on.
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The man dies in all those that keep silent.
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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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Writers are human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.
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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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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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Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom.
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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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I believe that each writer must decide in which language he or she is most comfortable.
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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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It’s the place to begin, always — to return to home, literally.
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I’m not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning, put a piece of paper in their typewriter machine and start writing. That I’ve never understood.
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Don’t take shadows too seriously. Reality is your only safety. Continue to reject illusion.
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As a global citizen, I sometimes feel like denying my identity.
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History teaches us to beware of the excitation of the liberated and the injustices that often accompany their righteous thirst for justice.
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But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That’s all.
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I don’t really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident.
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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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