It’s the place to begin, always — to return to home, literally.
WOLE SOYINKAA tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he pounces.
More Wole Soyinka Quotes
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Some of us – poets are not exactly poets. We live sometimes – beyond the word.
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Governance can dig itself into a huge hole and not even know it’s in there.
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I don’t really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident.
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My understanding of the creative process is simply that all cultures and all concerns meet at a certain point, the human point in which everything is related to one another. That has been my creative experience.
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No man beholds his mother’s womb Yet who denies it’s there? Coiled To the navel of the world is that Endless cord that links us all To the great Origin. If I lose my way. The trailing cord will bring me to the roots.
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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.
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But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That’s all.
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Very conscious of the fact that an effort was being made to destroy my mind, because I was deprived of books, deprived of any means of writing, deprived of human companionship. You never know how much you need it until you’re deprived of it.
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Colonialism bred an innate arrogance, but when you undertake that sort of imperial adventure, that arrogance gives way to a feeling of accommodativeness. You take pride in your openness.
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Romance is the sweetening of the soul With fragrance offered by the stricken heart.
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The youth should come together to challenge the status quo. They must not give up.
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The writer is the visionary of his people… He anticipates, he warns.
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Everybody knows that fraternities are a normal culture in all colleges. It exists in all colleges. President Clinton was a member of a fraternity. In fact, anybody who goes to College in the United States is a member of a College fraternity. There is absolutely nothing evil or occultic about fraternity.
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You accept whoever you are interacting with, directly, or indirectly.
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There’s a lot of insincerity about the actions of our legislators; they create distractions – like this anti-gay law you alluded to – and try to mobilise, to exacerbate people’s emotions. Until the legislators started making laws, people minded, generally, their own business.
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