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

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

" And gradually they're beginning to recognize the fact that there's nothing more secure than a democratic, accountable, and participatory form of government. But it's sunk in only theoretically, it has not yet sunk in completely in practical terms. "

" I'm not fond of biographies. I don't like writing about myself. "

" You always assume for some strange reason that you need three meals a day. "

" Under a dictatorship, a nation ceases to exist. All that remains is a fiefdom, a planet of slaves regimented by aliens from outer space. "

" Seven is the magic figure, because that's a symbolic figure of my favorite deity, Ogun. "

" 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. "

" Probably to me the greatest singer, female voice, is Billie Holiday. And one of the most moving for me, I don't know why - maybe it's nostalgia, maybe because my life is one of constant partying, whatever. "

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

" Before you're a writer, you're a citizen, a human being, and therefore the weapons of the citizen are at your disposal to use or not use. "

" I don't have the sort of temperament that submits to Christianity or Islam. "

" There is something really horrific for any human being who feels he is being consumed by other people. I'm talking about a writer's critics, who don't address what you've written, but want to probe into your existence and magnify the trivia of your life without any sense of humor, without any sense of context. "

" 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. "

" There is not a special imposition on writers to be activists. All that does is encourage writers to write propaganda. Propaganda can be written by anybody, including dictators. "

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

" African film makers are scraping by on a mere pittance. "

" 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. "

" One, a mass movement from within, which, as you know, is constantly being put down brutally but which, again, regroups and moves forward as is happening right now as we are speaking. "

" 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. "

" I ceased using words like optimism and pessimism a long time ago. "

" Writing in certain environments carries with it an occupational risk. "

" The Nation of Islam provides an antidote in the United States to fundamentalist Islam - which is why individuals from America have to go abroad to find radical teachings. "

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

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

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

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

" The blatant aggressiveness of theocracies I find distressing, because I grew up when Christians, Muslim and animists lived peacefully together. "

" The phenomenon of creativity, we know, is closely related to the ability to yoke together separate, and even seemingly incompatible, matrices. "

" You cannot live a normal existence if you haven't taken care of a problem that affects your life and affects the lives of others, values that you hold which in fact define your very existence. "

" No human is completely fearless. "