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Romance is the sweetening of the soul With fragrance offered by the stricken heart.

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What I teach is literary criticism and comparative literature and so on and that’s my function, but from time to time it’s possible for me actually to help a writer. I read something and something strikes me then, I feel I can talk to that writer about it.
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As a global citizen, I sometimes feel like denying my identity.
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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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Each time I think Ive created time for myself, along comes a throwback to disrupt my private space.
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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 man dies in all those that keep silent.
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The writer is the visionary of his people… He anticipates, he warns.
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Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.
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The hand that dips into the bottom of the pot will eat the biggest snail.
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Be yourself. Ultimately just be yourself.
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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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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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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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. . . 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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To achieve any change in the minds of the youth, there must be reorientation in terms of materialistic tendencies, corruption and crime generally.
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The media owes the responsibility to constantly tell the public the truth.
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I have no money to give to you but I have ideas and organizational capacity.
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I can look violence in the face and either reject or accept it.
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Sadness is twilight’s kiss on earth.
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You accept whoever you are interacting with, directly, or indirectly.
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The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.
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My father used to tell me stories before I fell asleep. When the children would gather, at a certain point, I had a tendency to make up my own elementary variations on stories I had heard, or to invent totally new ones.
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A tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he pounces.
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For me, a writer is already being the deuce of his mission, his occupation to society.
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A human feast is an indifferent morsel to a god.
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The media must be used effectively to reach the masses. You have to find a new language in which to address the people and demonstrate what is possible.
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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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