I cannot accept the definition of collective good as articulated by a privileged minority in society, especially when that minority is in power.
WOLE SOYINKAHistory teaches us to beware of the excitation of the liberated and the injustices that often accompany their righteous thirst for justice.
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History teaches us to beware of the excitation of the liberated and the injustices that often accompany their righteous thirst for justice.
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The writer is the visionary of his people… He anticipates, he warns.
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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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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 accept whoever you are interacting with, directly, or indirectly.
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Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.
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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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Governance can dig itself into a huge hole and not even know it’s in there.
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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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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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Don’t take shadows too seriously. Reality is your only safety. Continue to reject illusion.
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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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I don’t really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident.
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Alfred Nobel regretted that his invention, dynamite, was converted to degrading use, hence his creation of the Nobel Prize, as the humanist counter to the destructive power of his genius.
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The youth should come together to challenge the status quo. They must not give up.
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