It’s the place to begin, always — to return to home, literally.
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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When you are looking for corruption, you should look at the entire stratum of the society, while some forms of corruption are direct, others are indirect.
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Let’s say there are prospects for a new Nigeria, but I don’t think we have a new Nigeria yet.
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Intolerance has always been with us, you know. The moment you have ideology, we have intolerance, whether it’s the secular ideology or, you know ideocratic ideology, which always brings with it some kind of intolerance.
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Be yourself. Ultimately just be yourself.
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Mythology can be used, and has been used, even to re-state, you know, the very urgent problems of the world.
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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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I don’t really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident.
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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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What I teach is literary criticism and comparative literature and so on and that’s my function, but from time to time it’s possible for me actually to help a writer. I read something and something strikes me then, I feel I can talk to that writer about it.
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The youth should come together to challenge the status quo. They must not give up.
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I am convinced that Nigeria would have been a more highly developed country without the oil. I wished we’d never smelled the fumes of petroleum.
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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.
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Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.
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Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.
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I said: “A tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he pounces”. In other words: a tiger does not stand in the forest and say: “I am a tiger”. When you pass where the tiger has walked before, you see the skeleton of the duiker, you know that some tigritude has been emanated there.
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