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Sadness is twilight’s kiss on earth.

Wole Soyinka

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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Audience Base Both Communication Effect Image Multimedia Nature Theatre Wider
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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Always Back Crusades Go Historical Inquisition Know Monster Really Religion Some Swawned Way
I have no money to give to you but I have ideas and organizational capacity.
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Capacity Give Idea Money Organizational You
To 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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Achieve Change Corruption Crime Generally Materialistic Mind Reorientation Tendency Term Youth
The man dies in all those that keep silent.
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All Die Keep Man Silent Those
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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Antagonism Anthisesis Even First Form Hardly Power Resolve Thing Truth Well
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.
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Certain Concern Creative Culture Point Process Simply Understanding
For me, a writer is already being the deuce of his mission, his occupation to society.
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Already Being Deuce Mission Occupation Society Writer
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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Country People Person Prospect Say Yet
Some of us – poets are not exactly poets. We live sometimes – beyond the word.
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Beyond Exactly Live Some Poet Sometimes World
Romance is the sweetening of the soul With fragrance offered by the stricken heart.
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Fragrance Heart Offer Romance Soul Sticken Sweetening
. . . 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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Concern Far Feel Play Regime Sheer Terror Well
And gradually they’re beginning to recognize the fact that there’s nothing more secure than a democratic, accountable, and participatory form of government. But it’s sunk in only theoretically, it has not yet sunk in completely in practical terms.
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Accountable Beginning Democratic Fact Form Gradually More Nothing Participatory Recognize Secure
I consider the process of gestation just as important as when you’re actually sitting down putting words to the paper.
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Actually Consider Gestation Important Process Put Sitmsown Word
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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Corruption Direct Entire Form Look Other Society Some
If man cannot, what god dare claim perfection?
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Claim Dare God Man Perfection

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