You have the entire gamut of human experience captured in the mythology of the Yoruba. This is what makes the Yoruba mythology a natural source material for me in my creative endeavours.
WOLE SOYINKAWhen a leader encourages the culture of impunity, the society is lost and it makes the work harder for the rest of us.
More Wole Soyinka Quotes
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The youth should come together to challenge the status quo. They must not give up.
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Sadness is twilight’s kiss on earth.
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I know there are writers who get up every morning and sit by their typewriter or word processor or pad of paper and wait to write. I don’t function that way. I go through a long period of gestation before I’m even ready to write.
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Don’t take shadows too seriously. Reality is your only safety. Continue to reject illusion.
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Let’s say there are prospects for a new Nigeria, but I don’t think we have a new Nigeria yet.
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I can look violence in the face and either reject or accept it.
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My definition of slavery is the deprivation of human volition, any form of relationship between two peoples which is based on the deprivation of volition of one side.
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Intolerance has become, I think, the reigning ideology of the world today, the intolerance versus intolerance and it’s taken on lethal proportions.
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I’m not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning, put a piece of paper in their typewriter machine and start writing. That I’ve never understood.
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But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That’s all.
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I consider the process of gestation just as important as when you’re actually sitting down putting words to the paper.
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Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.
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And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others.
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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.
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The writer is the visionary of his people… He anticipates, he warns.
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