Intolerance has become, I think, the reigning ideology of the world today, the intolerance versus intolerance and it’s taken on lethal proportions.
WOLE SOYINKAAnd 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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The writer is the visionary of his people… He anticipates, he warns.
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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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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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Mythology can be used, and has been used, even to re-state, you know, the very urgent problems of the world.
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The hand that dips into the bottom of the pot will eat the biggest snail.
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Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.
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No man beholds his mother’s womb Yet who denies it’s there? Coiled To the navel of the world is that Endless cord that links us all To the great Origin. If I lose my way. The trailing cord will bring me to the roots.
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And gradually they’re beginning to recognize the fact that there’s nothing more secure than a democratic, accountable, and participatory form of government. But it’s sunk in only theoretically, it has not yet sunk in completely in practical terms.
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When a leader encourages the culture of impunity, the society is lost and it makes the work harder for the rest of us.
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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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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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I believe that each writer must decide in which language he or she is most comfortable.
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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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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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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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