Ken Saro-Wiwa famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The writer cannot be a mere storyteller; he cannot be a mere teacher; he cannot merely X-ray society’s weaknesses, its ills, its perils. He or she must be actively involved shaping its present and its future.
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I’ll tell you this, I may be dead but my ideas will not die.
-- Ken Saro-Wiwa -
The most important thing for me is that I've used my talents as a writer to enable the Ogoni people to confront their tormentors. I was not able to do it as a politician or a businessman. My writing did it. And it sure makes me feel good! I'm mentally prepared for the worst, but hopeful for the best. I think I have the moral victory.
-- Ken Saro-Wiwa -
I’ll tell you this, I may be dead but my ideas will not die.
-- Ken Saro-Wiwa
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The teacher that I was for decades, and that I still am in a certain way, wondered what was meant by the word education. I was truly dumbfounded at the very thought of dealing with such an essential and extensive subject.
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It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.
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Teach the children so it will not be necessary to teach the adults.
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When teachers doubt your potential, show them how wrong they truly are.
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I started with ballet and then my cousin Sarah introduced me to her tap teachers.
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I have not come into this world to make men better, but to make use of their weaknesses.
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To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness.
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I think that everyone has something about themselves that they feel is their weakness... their 'disability.' And I'm certain we all have one, because I think of a disability as being anything which undermines our belief and confidence in our own abilities.
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My family is my strength and my weakness.
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Heaven forming each on other to depend, A master, or a servant, or a friend, Bids each on other for assistance call, Till one man's weakness grows the strength of all.
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