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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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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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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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I am convinced that Nigeria would have been a more highly developed country without the oil. I wished we’d never smelled the fumes of petroleum.
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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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Let’s say there are prospects for a new Nigeria, but I don’t think we have a new Nigeria yet.
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A human feast is an indifferent morsel to a god.
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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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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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I have no money to give to you but I have ideas and organizational capacity.
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No man beholds his mother’s womb Yet who denies it’s there? Coiled To the navel of the world is that Endless cord that links us all To the great Origin. If I lose my way. The trailing cord will bring me to the roots.
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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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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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I can look violence in the face and either reject or accept it.
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For me, a writer is already being the deuce of his mission, his occupation to society.
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The man dies in all those that keep silent.
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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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