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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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The media owes the responsibility to constantly tell the public the truth.
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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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The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.
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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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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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The youth should come together to challenge the status quo. They must not give up.
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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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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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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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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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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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We do not ask the mountain’s aid to crack a walnut.
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I believe that each writer must decide in which language he or she is most comfortable.
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Some of us – poets are not exactly poets. We live sometimes – beyond the word.
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We live in a materialist world, and materialism appeals so strongly to humanity, no matter where.
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