For me, justice is the prime condition of humanity.
WOLE SOYINKAArts and the Sciences are a natural symbiosis. They stem from the same human existential impulse – exploration. Exploration of what lies beneath the surface, and re-confuguration of elements of what we call reality.
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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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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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I don’t really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident.
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Alfred Nobel regretted that his invention, dynamite, was converted to degrading use, hence his creation of the Nobel Prize, as the humanist counter to the destructive power of his genius.
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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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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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I have one abiding religion-human liberty.
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The youth should come together to challenge the status quo. They must not give up.
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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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Some of us – poets are not exactly poets. We live sometimes – beyond the word.
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My understanding of the creative process is simply that all cultures and all concerns meet at a certain point, the human point in which everything is related to one another. That has been my creative experience.
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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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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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Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.
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