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A tiger does not shout its tigritude, it acts.

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Each time I think I've created time for myself, along comes a throwback to disrupt my private space.

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

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

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The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.

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

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Just like birds, hunters know no borders.

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Given the scale of trauma caused by the genocide, Rwanda has indicated that however thin the hope of a community can be, a hero always emerges. Although no one can dare claim that it is now a perfect state, and that no more work is needed, Rwanda has risen from the ashes as a model or truth and reconciliation.

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

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There is only one home to the life of a river-mussel; there is only one home to the life of a tortoise; there is only one shell to the soul of man: there is only one world to the spirit of our race. If that world leaves its course and smashes on boulders of the great void, whose world will give us shelter?

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Biography

Nationality: Nigerian

Type: Dramatist

Born: July 13th, 1934

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