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.
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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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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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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Romance is the sweetening of the soul With fragrance offered by the stricken heart.
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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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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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For me, a writer is already being the deuce of his mission, his occupation to society.
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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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Governance can dig itself into a huge hole and not even know it’s in there.
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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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I am a very curious person; I’ll always ask: is this thing true, is it not true? And I use my own means to investigate and come to my conclusion.
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A human feast is an indifferent morsel to a god.
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The hand that dips into the bottom of the pot will eat the biggest snail.
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Each time I think Ive created time for myself, along comes a throwback to disrupt my private space.
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I have no money to give to you but I have ideas and organizational capacity.
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History teaches us to beware of the excitation of the liberated and the injustices that often accompany their righteous thirst for justice.
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