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

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" But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That's why I call it the most social of the various art forms. "

" I've always written plays for the purpose of getting something out of my system. "

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

" I like my peace and quiet whenever I can grab it. "

" An excessive amount of my time is taken with political involvement. It's unavoidable; that's my temperament. "

" One's own self-worth is tied to the worth of the community to which one belongs, which is intimately connected to humanity in general. What happens in Darfur becomes an assault on my own community, and on me as an individual. That's what the human family is all about. "

" Some people think the Nobel Prize makes you bullet-proof. I never had that illusion. "

" But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That's all. "

" The hand that dips into the bottom of the pot will eat the biggest snail. "

" Well, first of all I'll say that I come alive best in theater. "

" The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny. "

" My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing at all to do with a volatile human condition or struggle or whatever. It enriches me as a human being. "

" Those nations that say it's a crime to preach your religion are making a terrible mistake. All they're doing is driving underground other forms of spiritual intuitions and practices. "

" Just like birds, hunters know no borders. "

" I don't really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident. "

" Trading and religion have always been aligned together in the history of the world, and especially on the African continent. "

" Nigeria has had the misfortune - no, the fortune - of seeing the worst face of capitalism anywhere in Africa. The masses have seen it, they are disgusted, and they want an alternative. "

" The Lagos of my childhood was a well-laid-out maritime city. "

" But when you're deprived of it for a lengthy period then you value human companionship. But you have to survive and so you devise all kinds of mental exercises and it's amazing. "

" Being the first black Nobel laureate, and the first African, the African world considered me personal property. I lost the remaining shreds of my anonymity, even to walk a few yards in London, Paris or Frankfurt without being stopped. "

" I grew up in an atmosphere where words were an integral part of culture. "

" There's a kind of dynamic quality about theater and that dynamic quality expresses itself in relation to, first of all, the environment in which it's being staged; then the audience, the nature of the audience, the quality of the audience. "

" The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism. "

" Some African leaders actually dare to suggest that democracy is a concept alien to traditional African society. This is one of the most impudent political blasphemies I can think of. "

" Some of the greatest uprisings and consequent civil wars in Mexico have centered squarely on the ownership of land. "

" Very conscious of the fact that an effort was being made to destroy my mind, because I was deprived of books, deprived of any means of writing, deprived of human companionship. You never know how much you need it until you're deprived of it. "

" When I write plays, I'm already seeing the shapes on stage, of the actors and their interaction, and so on and so forth. I don't think I've ever written one play as an abstract piece, as a literary piece, floating in the air somewhere, to be flushed out later on. "

" If African film makers had one-tenth the amount commanded by film makers the world over - even the amount used by so-called shoestring film makers - I think we would see quite an explosion of African films on the world scene. "

" I am convinced that Nigeria would have been a more highly developed country without the oil. I wished we'd never smelled the fumes of petroleum. "

" All religions accept that there is something called 'criminality.' And criminality cannot be excused by religious fervour. "