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I have no money to give to you but I have ideas and organizational capacity.

Wole Soyinka

Governance can dig itself into a huge hole and not even know it’s in there.
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Dig Even Governance Huge Itself Know There
My definition of slavery is the deprivation of human volition, any form of relationship between two peoples which is based on the deprivation of volition of one side.
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Base Between Definition Deprivation Human People Relationship Slavery Volition
If man cannot, what god dare claim perfection?
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Claim Dare God Man Perfection
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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Amaze Country Everywhere Human Interest People Person Potential Presence Travel
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
Be yourself. Ultimately just be yourself.
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Be Just Ultimate Yourself
We do not ask the mountain’s aid to crack a walnut.
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Ask Crack Mountain Not Walnut
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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Home Idea Life Man Mussel One Only River Shell Soul Tortoise
Sadness is twilight’s kiss on earth.
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Earth Sadness Twilight
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
For me, justice is the prime condition of humanity.
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Condition For Humanity Justice Prime
But when you’re deprived of it for a lengthy period then you value human companionship. But you have to survive and so you devise all kinds of mental exercises and it’s amazing.
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All Companionship Deprive Devise Human Kind Length Period Survive
I don’t really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident.
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Accident Came Consider Myself Novelist Purely Really
The writer is the visionary of his people… He anticipates, he warns.
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Anticipate People Visionary Warm Water
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
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

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