I consider the process of gestation just as important as when you’re actually sitting down putting words to the paper.
WOLE SOYINKAThe media must be used effectively to reach the masses. You have to find a new language in which to address the people and demonstrate what is possible.
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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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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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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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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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The hand that dips into the bottom of the pot will eat the biggest snail.
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A human feast is an indifferent morsel to a god.
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For me, justice is the prime condition of humanity.
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I never hesitated, as a student, in embracing the necessity of violence. In South Africa, I didn’t just accept it; I looked forward to it as a mission.
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The youth should come together to challenge the status quo. They must not give up.
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There is something really horrific for any human being who feels he is being consumed by other people.
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I believe that each writer must decide in which language he or she is most comfortable.
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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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When I say war, I’m not talking about mental war; I’m talking about totally eliminating the obstacles to transformation of our children.
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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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Very conscious of the fact that an effort was being made to destroy my mind, because I was deprived of books, deprived of any means of writing, deprived of human companionship. You never know how much you need it until you’re deprived of it.
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