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Femi Osofisan
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“All your shrines drenched in the blood Of your worshippers/All your sacred symbols wiped out by fire!”
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“Nowadays, when the strong fight the weak, it's called a Liberation War to free the weak from oppression.”
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“Nowadays, in the new world, it is suicide to be weak.”
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“I ask you- without a shrine, without worshippers, what is a god?”
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“When fate decided to strike you down, what amount of crying can help?”
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“It's us, not the gods, who created war. It's us, we human beings, who can kill it.”
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“The gods are out to punish human beings who she claims ‘learn only from suffering and pain.”
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“Some words are such that when we hear them, all the light inside us dies at once, and our smiling daylight turns into the bleakness of night.”
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“I lit the torch so I will not have to grope my way to the camp where I shall be married to my enemy, that handsome butcher of our people.”
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“Insanity is the drug of misery.”
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“The gods! Which gods! Do you still trust any of them after this? Or have you quickly forgotten what they told us about Anlugbua just now? No, women, there is no shelter anywhere but in ourselves! Each of us has become our own god.”
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“Happiness is a fake. The gods employ it as a mask to trick us each time they are about to plunge us into grief.”
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“Don't speak like that, my child. Death is sweet, we think. But it is easier to talk of it, than to welcome it. We do not know what is on the other side, whether it is better or worse than here. Whereas even at its most bitter, life offers hope at least, which death does not.”
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“Even in misfortune, which levels everyone, the potions are unequal: we dare not tell you what we believe will becoming to us. [”
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“My daughter, you won't like to hear this but my advice is- do like the reed in the bush. Stand and strut in good weather. But when it storms, learn also to bend.”
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“When you have lost a war, you have lost, and there's nothing you can do about it but accept the consequences.”
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“It was my son your wife bewitched and led us to this calamity”
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“Anger and desire are twin sisters in this drama we call love, two kernels in the same nut!”
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“Anyone can kill. But it is not everybody who can forgive, or who can be just, as I know you are.”
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“An artist has only his dreams. He has no power.”
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“When Mother Goat nods at the sonorous sound of the drum, she is not dancing! It is because each time it sounds, she recognizes the wailing of the leather!”
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“The skin that graces the king's shoulders, the leopard knows who supplied it. When mother Goat nods at the sonorous sound of the drum, she is not dancing! It is because, each time it sounds, she recognizes the wailing of the leather!”
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“It is the fate of the conquered to toil for the strong! That is the logic of war, the logic of defeat!”
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“Beauty makes all women vulnerable to the greed of men”
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“War never ends, but only moves to another place?”
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“How can you claim to be strong, when your minds are so feeble.”
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“Let no one count herself lucky till she finds herself on her death bed.”
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“Home is where every traveller returns after a journey, however long. When night falls, the visitor must take his leave of his hosts.”
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“No swimmer, however good, can swim beyond the rim of the world.”
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“A father can only chew for a child; he cannot swallow for her.”
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“It is the rulers who write story - It is the hunters who compose the story of the hunt - It is the revellers, not the slaughtered cows, who record the fable of the feast.”
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“Then the deer must train themselves to seize the gun from their hunters! The cows to take over the narration of their own story.”
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“The fault is not just with the rulers, the fault is with all of us anyway.”
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“The goal is not just to free the masses but it is to create an equitable society where everybody is happy.”
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“Your freedom as an artist is somewhat curtailed. Curtailed, I said, however not compromised, for I will not allow that. Never.”
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“I think theatre is always about political struggle and reconciliation.”
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“We need to break the circles of colonialism. But at the same time, that was a man of genius. I think it's possible to teach Shakespeare without necessarily becoming subservient to the colonial.”
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“My aim has always been to get to the national audience, not a narrow audience.”
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“I started writing seriously in the 1970s.”
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“I wanted to do something about that. The kind of women I knew would feature in the plays.”
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“I like to subvert the proscenium wherever I go.”
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“I don't think Shakespeare needs to be rescued.”
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“Actually, to confess, most of the incidents in Cordelia were true stories that I either witnessed or were told to me by the people directly involved.”
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“Once I give you permission to work on any script of mine, then I leave you free to carry out your work the way you think best.”
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“Just as I was looking for him to make my films, so was he too looking for me to work on my plays. And, except on the financial side, the relationship has been very rewarding.”
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“I already know from previous other works, particularly abroad, that the film context can never fully satisfactorily present any work of fiction. It's not possible. The film has to get its effects through images, through pictures, and within a limited time frame. Thus all the subtlety which the novel achieves through prolonged introspection, meditative sequences, and so on, have to be cut out on the screen.”
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“Neither fiction nor the stage play can match the tactile sensuality that film provides. Which is why it's gradually becoming the dominant agency of popular entertainment, the area that pays the most financial profit to practitioners, and hence the area that the bulk of our students want to study and specialize in.”
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“Courses that require reading and reflection and introspection in literature, theory and criticism, history and philosophy are becoming very thinly subscribed. All over the world, not only in Nigeria. It's a crisis of contemporary culture. Obviously we need to do something about it, but I honestly don't know what at the moment.”
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“This, unfortunately, is where most of our films usually fail; that is, in insufficient research about the context of the story and the lazy assumption sometimes that a device used successfully in one film will naturally work in another, regardless of the setting.”
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“Unlike in Europe, for instance, the documents you need are often not there. You have to travel, go to the villages, consult with elders, dig into the archives of memory, and so on, to present credible characters and credible locations.”
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