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As a global citizen, I sometimes feel like denying my identity.

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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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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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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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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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I cannot accept the definition of collective good as articulated by a privileged minority in society, especially when that minority is in power.
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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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Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.
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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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We do not ask the mountain’s aid to crack a walnut.
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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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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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There is something really horrific for any human being who feels he is being consumed by other people.
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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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The media owes the responsibility to constantly tell the public the truth.
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Be yourself. Ultimately just be yourself.
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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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