My understanding of the creative process is simply that all cultures and all concerns meet at a certain point, the human point in which everything is related to one another. That has been my creative experience.
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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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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When I say war, I’m not talking about mental war; I’m talking about totally eliminating the obstacles to transformation of our children.
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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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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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The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.
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When a leader encourages the culture of impunity, the society is lost and it makes the work harder for the rest of us.
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Don’t take shadows too seriously. Reality is your only safety. Continue to reject illusion.
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I believe that each writer must decide in which language he or she is most comfortable.
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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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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 can look violence in the face and either reject or accept it.
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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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There is something really horrific for any human being who feels he is being consumed by other people.
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Colonialism bred an innate arrogance, but when you undertake that sort of imperial adventure, that arrogance gives way to a feeling of accommodativeness. You take pride in your openness.
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