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See, even despite pious statements to the contrary, much of the industrialized world has not yet come to terms with the recognition of the fallacy of what I call the strong man syndrome.

Wole Soyinka

I rarely use mythology for its own sake because, as a theatre person, the mythological figures are in fact humanity to the ninth degree and Yoruba mythology in particular has fascination of being one of the most humanised mythologies in the world.
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Because Degree Fact Figure Humanity Mythological Mythology Ninth Own Person Rarely Sake Theatre
I don’t know any other way to live but to wake up everyday armed with my convictions, not yielding them to the threat of danger and to the power and force of people who might despise me.
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Arm Conviction Danger Day Every Know Other Power Threat Wake Way Yield
I can look violence in the face and either reject or accept it.
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Accept Can Either Face Reject Took Violence
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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Care Effect Existence Life Live Normal Other Problem Taken
The man dies in all those that keep silent.
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All Die Keep Man Silent Those
See, even despite pious statements to the contrary, much of the industrialized world has not yet come to terms with the recognition of the fallacy of what I call the strong man syndrome.
WOLE SOYINKA

Come Contrary Despite Even Fallacy Industrialized Pious Recognition See Statement Term World
Each time I think Ive created time for myself, along comes a throwback to disrupt my private space.
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Create Disrupt Each Myself Private Some Space Think Throwback Time
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
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
A human feast is an indifferent morsel to a god.
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Gfeast God Human Indifference Morsel
You accept whoever you are interacting with, directly, or indirectly.
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Accept Direct Indirectly Interact Whoever
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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Been Mythological Problem State Urgent Use Very World
Religion has really spawned some monsters. It always has, historically. Go all the way back to the Inquisition, you know, the Crusades, the Jehad and so on.
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Always Back Crusades Go Historical Inquisition Know Monster Really Religion Some Swawned Way
There is something really horrific for any human being who feels he is being consumed by other people.
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Consume Feel Horrific Human Being Other People Really Sometimes
Everybody knows that fraternities are a normal culture in all colleges. It exists in all colleges. President Clinton was a member of a fraternity. In fact, anybody who goes to College in the United States is a member of a College fraternity. There is absolutely nothing evil or occultic about fraternity.
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All College Cultural Everybody Fraternities Know Normal Wexist
I said: “A tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he pounces”. In other words: a tiger does not stand in the forest and say: “I am a tiger”. When you pass where the tiger has walked before, you see the skeleton of the duiker, you know that some tigritude has been emanated there.
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Other Prince Proclaim Say Stand Tiger Tignitude Word

See, even despite pious statements to the contrary, much of the industrialized world has not yet come to terms with the recognition of the fallacy of what I call the strong man syndrome.

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