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But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That’s all.

Wole Soyinka

Don’t take shadows too seriously. Reality is your only safety. Continue to reject illusion.
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Continue Illusion Reality Reject Safety Seriously Shadow
Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.
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Control Domination Form Lie Power Selective Therefore Truth
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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Amaze Country Everywhere Human Interest People Person Potential Presence Travel
The hand that dips into the bottom of the pot will eat the biggest snail.
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Biggest Bottom Dip Eat Hard Pot Small
Arts and the Sciences are a natural symbiosis. They stem from the same human existential impulse – exploration. Exploration of what lies beneath the surface, and re-confuguration of elements of what we call reality.
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Existential Exploration Human Impulse Natural Same Science Stem Symbiosis
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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Believe Best Kind Learn Look Other Process Work
Looking at faces of people, one gets the feeling there’s a lot of work to be done.
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Done Face Feel Get Look Lot People Work
Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom.
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Antagonism Anthisesis Even First Form Hardly Power Resolve Thing Truth Well
The man dies in all those that keep silent.
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All Die Keep Man Silent Those
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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Home Idea Life Man Mussel One Only River Shell Soul Tortoise
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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Always Ask Curious Person Thing True Very
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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Capture Entire Experience Gamut Human Make Mythology Natural Yoruba
The writer is the visionary of his people… He anticipates, he warns.
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Anticipate People Visionary Warm Water
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
I’m not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning, put a piece of paper in their typewriter machine and start writing. That I’ve never understood.
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Learn Machine Morning Paper Piece Put Start Typewriter Writer Writing
Writers are human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.
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Appear Human Other Shudder Sometimes Think Winter

But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That’s all.

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