A human feast is an indifferent morsel to a god.
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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I never hesitated, as a student, in embracing the necessity of violence. In South Africa, I didn’t just accept it; I looked forward to it as a mission.
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Sadness is twilight’s kiss on earth.
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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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I don’t really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident.
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Religion 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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The writer is the visionary of his people… He anticipates, he warns.
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I believe that each writer must decide in which language he or she is most comfortable.
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The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.
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You accept whoever you are interacting with, directly, or indirectly.
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My definition of slavery is the deprivation of human volition, any form of relationship between two peoples which is based on the deprivation of volition of one side.
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Governance can dig itself into a huge hole and not even know it’s in there.
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Romance is the sweetening of the soul With fragrance offered by the stricken heart.
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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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It’s the place to begin, always — to return to home, literally.
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But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That’s why I call it the most social of the various art forms.
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