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Wole Soyinka

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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Other Prince Proclaim Say Stand Tiger Tignitude Word
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
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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Accept Articulated Collective Definition Good Minority Power Privilege Society Specially
The man dies in all those that keep silent.
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All Die Keep Man Silent Those
Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom.
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Antagonism Anthisesis Even First Form Hardly Power Resolve Thing Truth Well
I have no money to give to you but I have ideas and organizational capacity.
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Capacity Give Idea Money Organizational You
Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.
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Control Domination Form Lie Power Selective Therefore Truth
For me, justice is the prime condition of humanity.
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Condition For Humanity Justice Prime
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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Country People Person Prospect Say Yet
We live in a materialist world, and materialism appeals so strongly to humanity, no matter where.
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Appeal Humanity Live Materialist Matter Strongly
Writers are human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.
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Appear Human Other Shudder Sometimes Think Winter
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
Some of us – poets are not exactly poets. We live sometimes – beyond the word.
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Beyond Exactly Live Some Poet Sometimes World
Everybody knows that fraternities are a normal culture in all colleges. It exists in all colleges. President Clinton was a member of a fraternity. In fact, anybody who goes to College in the United States is a member of a College fraternity. There is absolutely nothing evil or occultic about fraternity.
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All College Cultural Everybody Fraternities Know Normal Wexist
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
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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