History teaches us to beware of the excitation of the liberated and the injustices that often accompany their righteous thirst for justice.
WOLE SOYINKADon’t take shadows too seriously. Reality is your only safety. Continue to reject illusion.
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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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But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That’s all.
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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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I have no money to give to you but I have ideas and organizational capacity.
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A human feast is an indifferent morsel to a god.
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Don’t take shadows too seriously. Reality is your only safety. Continue to reject illusion.
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We do not ask the mountain’s aid to crack a walnut.
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The writer is the visionary of his people… He anticipates, he warns.
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I don’t really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident.
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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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Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.
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You cannot live a normal existence if you haven’t taken care of a problem that affects your life and affects the lives of others, values that you hold which in fact define your very existence.
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As a global citizen, I sometimes feel like denying my identity.
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The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.
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If man cannot, what god dare claim perfection?
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