Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.

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Looking at faces of people, one gets the feeling there's a lot of work to be done.

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Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.

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And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others.

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There are different kinds of artists and very often, I'll be very frank with you, I wish I were a different kind.

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Lakunle: Sidi, my love will open your mind
Like the chaste leaf in the morning, when
The sun first touches it.

line from The Lion and the Jewel, script by Wole Soyinka (1959)
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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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Even when I'm writing plays I enjoy having company and mentally I think of that company as the company I'm writing for.

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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.

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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.

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