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Some of us – poets are not exactly poets. We live sometimes – beyond the word.

Wole Soyinka

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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Come Contrary Despite Even Fallacy Industrialized Pious Recognition See Statement Term World
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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All Behold Collect Denies Endless Link Man Mother Navel No Us Womb World
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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Become Ideology Intolerance Reigning Think Today Whole World
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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Actually Consider Gestation Important Process Put Sitmsown Word
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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Learn Machine Morning Paper Piece Put Start Typewriter Writer Writing
Don’t take shadows too seriously. Reality is your only safety. Continue to reject illusion.
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Continue Illusion Reality Reject Safety Seriously Shadow
There is something really horrific for any human being who feels he is being consumed by other people.
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Consume Feel Horrific Human Being Other People Really Sometimes
Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.
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All Book Form Suppress Terror Truth Wish Write
We all have our individual artistic temperaments as well as partisanships in creative directions. And we have strong opinions on the merits of the products of our occupation.
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All Artistic Creative Direction Individual Temperament Well
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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Action Anti Attitude Create Distraction Gay Insincerity Legislator Like Lot Mobilise Try
The media owes the responsibility to constantly tell the public the truth.
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Constantly Media Public Responsibility Truth
Culture is a matrix of infinite possibilities and choices. From within the same culture matrix we can extract arguments and strategies for the degradation and ennoblement of our species, for its enslavement or liberation, for the suppression of its productive potential or its enhancement.
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Choice Culture Matrix Poosisblity
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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Audience Base Both Communication Effect Image Multimedia Nature Theatre Wider
Looking at faces of people, one gets the feeling there’s a lot of work to be done.
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Done Face Feel Get Look Lot People Work
I can look violence in the face and either reject or accept it.
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Accept Can Either Face Reject Took Violence
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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Culture Encourage Harder Impurity Lost Make Rest Society Us World

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