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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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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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I can look violence in the face and either reject or accept it.
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Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.
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As a global citizen, I sometimes feel like denying my identity.
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Citizen Deny Feel Global Identity Sometimes
A tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he pounces.
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Romance is the sweetening of the soul With fragrance offered by the stricken heart.
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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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Consume Feel Horrific Human Being Other People Really Sometimes
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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I am a very curious person; I’ll always ask: is this thing true, is it not true? And I use my own means to investigate and come to my conclusion.
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The hand that dips into the bottom of the pot will eat the biggest snail.
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The man dies in all those that keep silent.
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Some of us – poets are not exactly poets. We live sometimes – beyond the word.
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A human feast is an indifferent morsel to a god.
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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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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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