There is something really horrific for any human being who feels he is being consumed by other people.
WOLE SOYINKAI 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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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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Some of us – poets are not exactly poets. We live sometimes – beyond the word.
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Arts 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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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 greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.
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I don’t really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident.
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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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The media owes the responsibility to constantly tell the public the truth.
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I believe that each writer must decide in which language he or she is most comfortable.
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Romance is the sweetening of the soul With fragrance offered by the stricken heart.
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To achieve any change in the minds of the youth, there must be reorientation in terms of materialistic tendencies, corruption and crime generally.
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Sadness is twilight’s kiss on earth.
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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 can look violence in the face and either reject or accept it.
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Well, some people say I’m pessimistic because I recognize the eternal cycle of evil. All I say is, look at the history of mankind right up to this moment and what do you find?
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