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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.

Wole Soyinka

A tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he pounces.
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Does Proclaim Pounce Tiger Tigribute
Governance can dig itself into a huge hole and not even know it’s in there.
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Dig Even Governance Huge Itself Know There
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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Become Ideology Intolerance Reigning Think Today Whole World
I began writing early – very, very early… I was already writing short stories for the radio and selling poems to poetry and art festivals; I was involved in school plays; I wrote essays, so there was no definite moment when I said, ‘Now I’m a writer.’ I’ve always been a writer.
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Began Early Festival Poem Poetry Selling Short Story Very Writing
Writers are human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.
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Appear Human Other Shudder Sometimes Think Winter
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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Antagonism Anthisesis Even First Form Hardly Power Resolve Thing Truth Well
Some of us – poets are not exactly poets. We live sometimes – beyond the word.
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Beyond Exactly Live Some Poet Sometimes World
Don’t take shadows too seriously. Reality is your only safety. Continue to reject illusion.
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Continue Illusion Reality Reject Safety Seriously Shadow
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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Capture Entire Experience Gamut Human Make Mythology Natural Yoruba
Arts and the Sciences are a natural symbiosis. They stem from the same human existential impulse – exploration. Exploration of what lies beneath the surface, and re-confuguration of elements of what we call reality.
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Existential Exploration Human Impulse Natural Same Science Stem Symbiosis
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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Achieve Change Corruption Crime Generally Materialistic Mind Reorientation Tendency Term Youth
There’s a lot of insincerity about the actions of our legislators; they create distractions – like this anti-gay law you alluded to – and try to mobilise, to exacerbate people’s emotions. Until the legislators started making laws, people minded, generally, their own business.
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Action Anti Attitude Create Distraction Gay Insincerity Legislator Like Lot Mobilise Try
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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Condition For Humanity Justice Prime
I have one abiding religion-human liberty.
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Abide Body Have Human One Religion
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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Absolute Believe Cause Certainty Confidence Feel Must One Self Think Through

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