As a global citizen, I sometimes feel like denying my identity.
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 far as the regime is concerned, well, the play is sheer terror for them. Because they feel, How dare – how dare anybody lift his or her voice in criticism against us? We have the guns. Their level of paranoia and power-drunkenness is unbelievable.
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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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My father used to tell me stories before I fell asleep. When the children would gather, at a certain point, I had a tendency to make up my own elementary variations on stories I had heard, or to invent totally new ones.
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The media owes the responsibility to constantly tell the public the truth.
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The youth should come together to challenge the status quo. They must not give up.
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Be yourself. Ultimately just be yourself.
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Each time I think Ive created time for myself, along comes a throwback to disrupt my private space.
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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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But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That’s all.
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Writers are human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.
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Some of us – poets are not exactly poets. We live sometimes – beyond the word.
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I have no money to give to you but I have ideas and organizational capacity.
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Don’t take shadows too seriously. Reality is your only safety. Continue to reject illusion.
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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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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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