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

Wole Soyinka

When you are looking for corruption, you should look at the entire stratum of the society, while some forms of corruption are direct, others are indirect.
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Corruption Direct Entire Form Look Other Society Some
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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Believe Best Kind Learn Look Other Process Work
Be yourself. Ultimately just be yourself.
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Be Just Ultimate Yourself
. . . as far as the regime is concerned, well, the play is sheer terror for them. Because they feel, How dare – how dare anybody lift his or her voice in criticism against us? We have the guns. Their level of paranoia and power-drunkenness is unbelievable.
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Concern Far Feel Play Regime Sheer Terror Well
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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Cycle Eternal Evil People Pessimistic Recognizing Say Some
For me, justice is the prime condition of humanity.
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Condition For Humanity Justice Prime
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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Care Effect Existence Life Live Normal Other Problem Taken
Colonialism bred an innate arrogance, but when you undertake that sort of imperial adventure, that arrogance gives way to a feeling of accommodativeness. You take pride in your openness.
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Adventure Arrogance Colonialism Feeling Imperial Innate Sort Understand Way
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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Convince Country Develop Highly More Oil People
A tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he pounces.
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Does Proclaim Pounce Tiger Tigribute
But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That’s all.
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All Lesson Sit Sown Ultimate Write
You accept whoever you are interacting with, directly, or indirectly.
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Accept Direct Indirectly Interact Whoever
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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Always Been Ideology Intolerance Moment Secular Wether
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
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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Been Mythological Problem State Urgent Use Very World
You have the entire gamut of human experience captured in the mythology of the Yoruba. This is what makes the Yoruba mythology a natural source material for me in my creative endeavours.
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Capture Entire Experience Gamut Human Make Mythology Natural Yoruba

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