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.
WOLE SOYINKAIntolerance has become, I think, the reigning ideology of the world today, the intolerance versus intolerance and it’s taken on lethal proportions.
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Some of us – poets are not exactly poets. We live sometimes – beyond the word.
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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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Romance is the sweetening of the soul With fragrance offered by the stricken heart.
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The youth should come together to challenge the status quo. They must not give up.
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Intolerance has become, I think, the reigning ideology of the world today, the intolerance versus intolerance and it’s taken on lethal proportions.
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We live in a materialist world, and materialism appeals so strongly to humanity, no matter where.
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For me, a writer is already being the deuce of his mission, his occupation to society.
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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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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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Be yourself. Ultimately just be yourself.
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A tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he pounces.
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I know there are writers who get up every morning and sit by their typewriter or word processor or pad of paper and wait to write. I don’t function that way. I go through a long period of gestation before I’m even ready to write.
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I have no money to give to you but I have ideas and organizational capacity.
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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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My understanding of the creative process is simply that all cultures and all concerns meet at a certain point, the human point in which everything is related to one another. That has been my creative experience.
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