If man cannot, what god dare claim perfection?
WOLE SOYINKASadness is twilight’s kiss on earth.
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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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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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Governance can dig itself into a huge hole and not even know it’s in there.
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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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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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Be yourself. Ultimately just be yourself.
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I believe that each writer must decide in which language he or she is most comfortable.
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Sadness is twilight’s kiss on earth.
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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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Colonialism bred an innate arrogance, but when you undertake that sort of imperial adventure, that arrogance gives way to a feeling of accommodativeness. You take pride in your openness.
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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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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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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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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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Some of us – poets are not exactly poets. We live sometimes – beyond the word.
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