Under a dictatorship, a nation ceases to exist. All that remains is a fiefdom, a planet of slaves regimented by aliens from outer space.
From Wole Soyinka
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.
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.
History teaches us to beware of the excitation of the liberated and the injustices that often accompany their righteous thirst for justice.
And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others.
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.
But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That's all.
No human is completely fearless.
I grew up in an atmosphere where words were an integral part of culture.
The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.
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