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Whatever happens on tour... stays on tour! WizKid
Whatever Stays Tour Happens
I always dreamed of making it big. WizKid
Big Dreamed Always Making
I like me some Bape, you know. But I wear anything, to be honest. Adyn, Rick Owens, Givenchy, anything. I shop from everywhere. WizKid
Me You To Be Honest Everywhere Wear Some Like Know Shop Anything Rick Honest
When I'm back home, all I wear is African fabric. All I really rock is the traditional stuff. WizKid
Home Back Fabric Wear Stuff Rock Traditional African Really
I have a lot of tailors. If I want something made in 12 hours, it will be made in 12 hours. WizKid
Will Made Something Hours Lot Want
If you're coming to do an interview with me, you should know about me. It's not that it's 'cos I'm Wizkid; I'd even hate it if you were coming to interview my friend and asked him the same question. You're here for an interview, so you should know who you're doing the interview with. WizKid
Me You Hate Interview About My Friend Know Him Coming Doing Were Question Friend Same Asked Should Who Even Here
No, fame has not changed Wizkid. WizKid
Changed Fame
We still have a lot of work to do as African artists to get more recognition in the U.K. and the U.S., but right now, definitely, we're getting the recognition. The thing is we have to earn it. Keep working. Stay working. WizKid
Work Earn Definitely Recognition Stay More Still Lot Get Getting Artists African Working Keep Now Right Thing
I'm getting in the studio with everybody I've always wanted to work with. That's the amazing thing. WizKid
Work Amazing Everybody Studio Always Amazing Thing Getting Wanted Thing
But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That's why I call it the most social of the various art forms. Wole Soyinka
Art Nature Communication Various Both Most Call Because Audience Text Art Forms Effects Theater Forms Social Multimedia Base Why Images Wider
I am a glutton for tranquility. Wole Soyinka
Am Tranquility
Trading and religion have always been aligned together in the history of the world, and especially on the African continent. Wole Soyinka
Religion History Together World Aligned Always Continent Trading Been The History Of African
I began writing early - very, very early... I was already writing short stories for the radio and selling poems to poetry and art festivals; I was involved in school plays; I wrote essays, so there was no definite moment when I said, 'Now I'm a writer.' I've always been a writer. Wole Soyinka
Art Writing School Definite Poems Poetry Writer School Plays Involved Wrote Said Always Been Began Selling Very Festivals Essays Short Stories Short Stories Moment Radio Now Early Plays
I love beauty. But I like the beauty accidentally, not dished up, served up on a platter. Wole Soyinka
Love Beauty Like Accidentally Up Platter Served
Art is solace; art is vision, and when I pick up a literary work, I am a consumer of literature for its own sake. Wole Soyinka
Work Art Vision Own Solace Consumer Pick Am Sake Up Literary Literary Work Literature
History teaches us to beware of the excitation of the liberated and the injustices that often accompany their righteous thirst for justice. Wole Soyinka
History Justice Liberated Righteous Beware Accompany Often Us Teaches Injustices Thirst
Education is lacking in most of those who pontificate. Wole Soyinka
Education Those Most Lacking Pontificate Who
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 me. Wole Soyinka
Day Me Every Day People Wake Up Power Convictions Live Every Other Despise Way Danger Threat Armed Know Force Wake Up Yielding Any Any Other Way Them Might Who
The phenomenon of creativity, we know, is closely related to the ability to yoke together separate, and even seemingly incompatible, matrices. Wole Soyinka
Together Creativity Related Ability Seemingly Know Yoke Closely Separate Even Incompatible Phenomenon
Some of the greatest uprisings and consequent civil wars in Mexico have centered squarely on the ownership of land. Wole Soyinka
Ownership Civil Some Civil Wars Greatest Mexico Squarely Centered Land Wars Consequent
But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That's all. Wole Soyinka
Sit Down Lesson Write Ultimate Just
But when you're deprived of it for a lengthy period then you value human companionship. But you have to survive and so you devise all kinds of mental exercises and it's amazing. Wole Soyinka
You Amazing Value Kinds Mental Devise Period Exercises Survive Human Lengthy To Survive Deprived Then Companionship
Even when I'm writing plays I enjoy having company and mentally I think of that company as the company I'm writing for. Wole Soyinka
Writing Enjoy Think Having Mentally Company Even Plays
I consider the process of gestation just as important as when you're actually sitting down putting words to the paper. Wole Soyinka
You Words Important Down Consider Paper Putting Sitting Just Process Actually
I don't really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident. Wole Soyinka
Myself Accident Consider Out Purely Came Just Really Novelist
I found, when I left, that there were others who felt the same way. We'd meet, they'd come and seek me out, we'd talk about the future. And I found that their depression and pessimism was every bit as acute as mine. Wole Soyinka
Depression Future Me Every Others Meet Mine Way Bit Out Seek About Come Talk Felt Were Left Same Pessimism Who Found Acute
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