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

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" 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. "

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

" No human is completely fearless. "

" I am a glutton for tranquility. "

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

" I've done a lot of guerrilla theater in my time. "

" And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" One has a responsibility to clean up one's space and make it livable as far as one's own resources go. That includes not only material resources, but psychological resources: the commitment of time and a portion of your mind to something when you'd rather be doing something else. "

" 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. "

" We live in a materialist world, and materialism appeals so strongly to humanity, no matter where. "

" I have a kind of magnetic attraction to situations of violence. "

" Education is lacking in most of those who pontificate. "

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

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

" The Sudanese government has been playing games with the world, with the Africa Union, in particular, have been playing for time in order to conclude its mission of ethnic cleansing in the Sudan. "

" I'm an Afro-realist. I take what comes, and I do my best to affect what is unacceptable in society. "

" Just like birds, hunters know no borders. "

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

" I found, when I left, that there were others who felt the same way. We'd meet, they'd come and seek me out, we'd talk about the future. And I found that their depression and pessimism was every bit as acute as mine. "

" Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom. "

" My understanding of the creative process is simply that all cultures and all concerns meet at a certain point, the human point in which everything is related to one another. That has been my creative experience. I never know who's influencing me at any time. "