The hand that dips into the bottom of the pot will eat the biggest snail.
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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As a global citizen, I sometimes feel like denying my identity.
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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.
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The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.
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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 cannot accept the definition of collective good as articulated by a privileged minority in society, especially when that minority is in power.
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When you are looking for corruption, you should look at the entire stratum of the society, while some forms of corruption are direct, others are indirect.
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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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The youth should come together to challenge the status quo. They must not give up.
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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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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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I know there are writers who get up every morning and sit by their typewriter or word processor or pad of paper and wait to write. I don’t function that way. I go through a long period of gestation before I’m even ready to write.
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I’m not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning, put a piece of paper in their typewriter machine and start writing. That I’ve never understood.
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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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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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My definition of slavery is the deprivation of human volition, any form of relationship between two peoples which is based on the deprivation of volition of one side.
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