"I cannot accept the definition of collective good as articulated by a privileged minority in society, especially when that minority is in power."

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Source : Wole Soyinka, Biodun Jeyifo (2001). “Conversations with Wole Soyinka”, p.58, Univ. Press of Mississippi

Wole Soyinka

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“I am rather what we usually call a Pop pianist with my own romantic style.”
“Days, weeks, months, years," said the boy. "Minutes and hours and seconds. I don't know about any of those things.”
“You can’t depend on special teams touchdowns and blocked punts every week to win.”
“It's difficult. You tell yourself that, but you don't believe it. You always feel like there's another game. You know, the reality is, it's do or die. And I think I'm going to play like that.”
“Just feeling free to walk out on stage and be myself is pretty damn significant.”
“Believe me, I know all about bottle acoustics. I spent much of the sixth century in an old sesame oil jar, corked with wax, bobbing about in the Red Sea. No one heard my hollers. In the end an old fisherman set me free, by which time I was desperate enough to grant him several wishes. I erupted in the form of a smoking giant, did a few lightning bolts, and bent to ask him his desire. Poor old boy had dropped dead of a heart attack. There should be a moral there, but for the life of me I can't see one.”
“If you would grow great and stately, You must try to walk sedately.”
“The benefits of the constitution and laws are alike for all; and the great Elohim has given me the privilege of having the benefits of the constitution and the writ of habeas corpus.”

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