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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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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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Be yourself. Ultimately just be yourself.
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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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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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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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As a global citizen, I sometimes feel like denying my identity.
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Colonialism bred an innate arrogance, but when you undertake that sort of imperial adventure, that arrogance gives way to a feeling of accommodativeness. You take pride in your openness.
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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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There is only one home to the life of a river-mussel; there is only one home to the life of a tortoise; there is only one shell to the soul of man: there is only one world to the spirit of our race. If that world leaves its course and smashes on boulders of the great void, whose world will give us shelter?
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But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That’s why I call it the most social of the various art forms.
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Writers are human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.
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The writer is the visionary of his people… He anticipates, he warns.
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I consider the process of gestation just as important as when you’re actually sitting down putting words to the paper.
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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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A tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he pounces.
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