HAppy Birthday Prof.
"Well, some people say I'm pessimistic because I
recognize the eternal cycle of evil. All I say is,
look at the history of mankind right up to this
moment and what do you find?"
"Romance is the sweetening of the soul, With
fragrance offered by the stricken heart."
"See, even despite pious statements to the
contrary, much of the industrialized world has
not yet come to terms with the recognition of
the fallacy of what I call the strong man
syndrome."
"Human life has meaning only to that degree and
as long as it is lived in the service of humanity."
"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."
"African film makers are scraping by on a mere
pittance."
"We live in a materialist world, and materialism
appeals so strongly to humanity, no matter
where."
"Seven is the magic figure, because that's a
symbolic figure of my favorite deity, Ogun."
"For me, justice is the prime condition of
humanity."
"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."
"I don't know any other way to live but to wake
up every day armed with my convictions, not
yielding them to the threat of danger and to the
power and force of people who might despise
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