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Wole Soyinka

The media owes the responsibility to constantly tell the public the truth.
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Constantly Media Public Responsibility Truth
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
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
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
Religion has really spawned some monsters. It always has, historically. Go all the way back to the Inquisition, you know, the Crusades, the Jehad and so on.
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Always Back Crusades Go Historical Inquisition Know Monster Really Religion Some Swawned Way
But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That’s all.
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All Lesson Sit Sown Ultimate Write
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
I think that feeling that if one believed absolutely in any cause, then one must have the confidence, the self-certainty, to go through with that particular course of action.
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Absolute Believe Cause Certainty Confidence Feel Must One Self Think Through
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
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
The youth should come together to challenge the status quo. They must not give up.
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Challenge Come Give Must Status Together Youth
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
I don’t know any other way to live but to wake up everyday armed with my convictions, not yielding them to the threat of danger and to the power and force of people who might despise me.
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Arm Conviction Danger Day Every Know Other Power Threat Wake Way Yield
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
We do not ask the mountain’s aid to crack a walnut.
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Ask Crack Mountain Not Walnut
I have one abiding religion-human liberty.
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Abide Body Have Human One Religion

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