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.
WOLE SOYINKAReligion has really spawned some monsters. It always has, historically. Go all the way back to the Inquisition, you know, the Crusades, the Jehad and so on.
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As a global citizen, I sometimes feel like denying my identity.
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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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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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Sadness is twilight’s kiss on earth.
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I don’t know any other way to live but to wake up everyday armed with my convictions, not yielding them to the threat of danger and to the power and force of people who might despise me.
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Governance can dig itself into a huge hole and not even know it’s in there.
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I have one abiding religion-human liberty.
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Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.
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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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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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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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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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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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The hand that dips into the bottom of the pot will eat the biggest snail.
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