I believe that each writer must decide in which language he or she is most comfortable.
WOLE SOYINKATo 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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I have no money to give to you but I have ideas and organizational capacity.
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We all have our individual artistic temperaments as well as partisanships in creative directions. And we have strong opinions on the merits of the products of our occupation.
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We live in a materialist world, and materialism appeals so strongly to humanity, no matter where.
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Be yourself. Ultimately just be yourself.
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. . . as far as the regime is concerned, well, the play is sheer terror for them. Because they feel, How dare – how dare anybody lift his or her voice in criticism against us? We have the guns. Their level of paranoia and power-drunkenness is unbelievable.
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I know there are writers who get up every morning and sit by their typewriter or word processor or pad of paper and wait to write. I don’t function that way. I go through a long period of gestation before I’m even ready to write.
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Governance can dig itself into a huge hole and not even know it’s in there.
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Each time I think Ive created time for myself, along comes a throwback to disrupt my private space.
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Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.
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For me, a writer is already being the deuce of his mission, his occupation to society.
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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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Looking at faces of people, one gets the feeling there’s a lot of work to be done.
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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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I can look violence in the face and either reject or accept it.
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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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