Wole Soyinka Quotes
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In order to raise money from somebody, you have to understand who is this person, not to deceive them but to understand them. What would be their motives for contributing money? Why do these people contribute money to some places, but not to others? That's attunement - treating everybody well, but not treating everybody the same.
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I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.
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Many African-American men are incarcerated. And so African-American women do carry an enormous burden. And traditionally have carried a greater burden than perhaps their white counterparts.
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All I have to do to continue to make things work is make great records, and that's more important than having a crazy master plan.
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Only buy clothes that you plan to keep forever. It's important to see trends for what they are: a game.
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Fashion is killing women's body image of themselves.
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Certainly, a lot of the films I've worked on have ended up good movies, but they haven't always been the best experiences.
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By taking the time to stop and appreciate who you are and what you've achieved - and perhaps learned through a few mistakes, stumbles and losses - you actually can enhance everything about you. Self-acknowledgment and appreciation are what give you the insights and awareness to move forward toward higher goals and accomplishments.
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When you are romancing a woman in a relationship, it should be poetic. It should have layers.
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Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.
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God drove Cain out of his presence and sent him into exile far away from his native land, so that he passed from a life of human kindness to one which was more akin to the rude existence of a wild beast.
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To every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage.
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We can never say it often or loudly enough: Immigrants and refugees revitalize and renew America.
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Oofy, thinking of the tenner he had given Freddie, writhed like an electric fan.
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There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.
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So this is my effort to bring back the hope that we must have if we are to change direction. . . . I think to be fully human, we need to have meaning in our lives, and that's what I am trying to help these young people to find.
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Don’t you feel the same way? When I cannot see myself, even though I touch myself, I wonder if I really exist.
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Granted, I'm more interested in technology than most people, and less interested in politics than most. But I don't like to think about categories. I really see myself as a general non-fiction writer.
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We are resident inside with the machinery, a glimmering spread throughout the apparatus. We exist with a wind whispering inside and our moon flexing. Amid the ducts, inside the basilica of bones. The flesh is a neighborhood, but not the life.
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'I wish we had the technology to fight God on an equal basis,' he said in low, tight tones. 'To beard him in his den. To fight back for all of the injustices heaped on humanity. To allow him to alter his smug arrogance or be blown to hell.'
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It is when I am convinced about my character that I can do justice to that role.
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I'll tell you what I probably would prefer to happen less and less: actors that I know and respect in shampoo ads. Or modeling.
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For me, justice is the prime condition of humanity.
