The media owes the responsibility to constantly tell the public the truth.
WOLE SOYINKAI don’t really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident.
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You accept whoever you are interacting with, directly, or indirectly.
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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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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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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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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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Some of us – poets are not exactly poets. We live sometimes – beyond the word.
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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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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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Writers are human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.
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I don’t really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident.
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I am a very curious person; I’ll always ask: is this thing true, is it not true? And I use my own means to investigate and come to my conclusion.
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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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The man dies in all those that keep silent.
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Romance is the sweetening of the soul With fragrance offered by the stricken heart.
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When I say war, I’m not talking about mental war; I’m talking about totally eliminating the obstacles to transformation of our children.
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