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

Wole Soyinka

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
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
Governance can dig itself into a huge hole and not even know it’s in there.
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Dig Even Governance Huge Itself Know There
To achieve any change in the minds of the youth, there must be reorientation in terms of materialistic tendencies, corruption and crime generally.
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Achieve Change Corruption Crime Generally Materialistic Mind Reorientation Tendency Term Youth
No man beholds his mother’s womb Yet who denies it’s there? Coiled To the navel of the world is that Endless cord that links us all To the great Origin. If I lose my way. The trailing cord will bring me to the roots.
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All Behold Collect Denies Endless Link Man Mother Navel No Us Womb World
Some of us – poets are not exactly poets. We live sometimes – beyond the word.
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Beyond Exactly Live Some Poet Sometimes World
But when you’re deprived of it for a lengthy period then you value human companionship. But you have to survive and so you devise all kinds of mental exercises and it’s amazing.
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All Companionship Deprive Devise Human Kind Length Period Survive
I have no money to give to you but I have ideas and organizational capacity.
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Capacity Give Idea Money Organizational You
Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.
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All Book Form Suppress Terror Truth Wish Write
But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That’s all.
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All Lesson Sit Sown Ultimate Write
There is something really horrific for any human being who feels he is being consumed by other people.
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Consume Feel Horrific Human Being Other People Really Sometimes
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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Absolute Believe Cause Certainty Confidence Feel Must One Self Think Through
For me, justice is the prime condition of humanity.
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Condition For Humanity Justice Prime
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
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
Culture is a matrix of infinite possibilities and choices. From within the same culture matrix we can extract arguments and strategies for the degradation and ennoblement of our species, for its enslavement or liberation, for the suppression of its productive potential or its enhancement.
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Choice Culture Matrix Poosisblity

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

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