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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. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

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The only certain freedom's in departure. ↗

— Robert Frost

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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. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

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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. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

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I don't really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

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I think that feeling that if one believed absolutely in any cause, then one must have the confidence, the self-certainty, to go through with that particular course of action. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

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I'm not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning, put a piece of paper in their typewriter machine and start writing. That I've never understood. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

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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. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

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Am I now supposed to go on Oprah and cry and tell you my deepest, darkest secrets because you want to know? ↗

— Kevin Spacey

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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. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

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