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For me, a writer is already being the deuce of his mission, his occupation to society.

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For me, a writer is already being the deuce of his mission, his occupation to society.
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Intolerance has always been with us, you know. The moment you have ideology, we have intolerance, whether it’s the secular ideology or, you know ideocratic ideology, which always brings with it some kind of intolerance.
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Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.
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It’s the place to begin, always — to return to home, literally.
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Sadness is twilight’s kiss on earth.
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But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That’s all.
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There is only one home to the life of a river-mussel; there is only one home to the life of a tortoise; there is only one shell to the soul of man: there is only one world to the spirit of our race. If that world leaves its course and smashes on boulders of the great void, whose world will give us shelter?
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The man dies in all those that keep silent.
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History teaches us to beware of the excitation of the liberated and the injustices that often accompany their righteous thirst for justice.
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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 don’t really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident.
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It is the human potentials that interest me. I travel and everywhere I go I am amazed at the presence of Nigerians. The intelligence, integrity, productivity, initiative.
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What I teach is literary criticism and comparative literature and so on and that’s my function, but from time to time it’s possible for me actually to help a writer. I read something and something strikes me then, I feel I can talk to that writer about it.
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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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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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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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