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"We...advance toward a state of society in which not only each man but every impulse in each man claims carte blanche."
"The action or inaction of any government does not negate the Personal Responsibility of the citizens."
"The journey of every ignorant and obedient society always ends up in the same place: In the desert!"
"The only soap of a dirty society is the clean men, only the clean can wash the grimy!"
"What the new government of Nigeria and other African governments must do, is to start a massive reorientation campaign in the culture of the dignity of labour."
"To Have Thousands Transformed In The Society Is To Lack Unity."
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"My rejection of the idea of entertainment in its current form is based on the audience that comes with it."
"A myth is the name of a terrible lie told by a smelly little brown person to a man in a white suit with a pair of binoculars."
"I'm aware of my audience in a way, and I do try to engage with them while I'm trying to go about my business of thinking. I believe they help me by providing a focus."
"The self is an oral society in which the present is constantly running a dialogue with the past and the future inside of one skin."
"I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do."
"I was very committed to the process of composing, working at poems, putting things together and taking them apart like some kind of experimental filmmaker."
"Children frequently sing meaningful phrases to themselves over and over again before they learn to make a distinction between singing and saying."
"You pay your money, you take your choice. I get the audience my language attracts and I lose the ones it repels."
"When my mother left her second husband, she wrote her autobiography and presented it to him for his approval."
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