"One thing I can tell you is this, that I am not a methodical writer."

--

Wole Soyinka

“A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.”

Source : 'Kulchur' Spring 1962 'Tokenism'
“Call-time has renewed my faith in the need for public financing of elections. 'Call-time' is where I as the candidate, sit in a room with my 'call-time manager,' and a phone. Then I call people and ask them for money. For hours. Apparently, I'm really good at it.”
“A good school teaches you resilience - that ability to bounce back.”
“The fact -- not theory -- that evolution has occurred and the Darwinian theory as to how it occurred have become so confused in popular opinion that the distinction must be stressed.”
“Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.”
“Many of us would never have tried psychedelics if it weren't for Leary's popularizing them.”
“a single leaf falling autumn is everywhere...”
“Usually, when the distractions of daily life deplete our energy, the first thing we eliminate is the thing we eliminate is the thing we need the most: quiet, reflective time. Time to dream, time to contemplate what's working and what's not, so that we can make changes for the better.”

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