Romance is the sweetening of the soul With fragrance offered by the stricken heart.
WOLE SOYINKARomance is the sweetening of the soul With fragrance offered by the stricken heart.
WOLE SOYINKAWell, 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.
WOLE SOYINKASome of us – poets are not exactly poets. We live sometimes – beyond the word.
WOLE SOYINKAI cannot accept the definition of collective good as articulated by a privileged minority in society, especially when that minority is in power.
WOLE SOYINKAEverybody 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.
WOLE SOYINKATo achieve any change in the minds of the youth, there must be reorientation in terms of materialistic tendencies, corruption and crime generally.
WOLE SOYINKADon’t take shadows too seriously. Reality is your only safety. Continue to reject illusion.
WOLE SOYINKAA tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he pounces.
WOLE SOYINKAI can look violence in the face and either reject or accept it.
WOLE SOYINKAFor me, a writer is already being the deuce of his mission, his occupation to society.
WOLE SOYINKALet’s say there are prospects for a new Nigeria, but I don’t think we have a new Nigeria yet.
WOLE SOYINKAI’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.
WOLE SOYINKAYou accept whoever you are interacting with, directly, or indirectly.
WOLE SOYINKAEach time I think Ive created time for myself, along comes a throwback to disrupt my private space.
WOLE SOYINKAMy 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.
WOLE SOYINKAIt’s the place to begin, always — to return to home, literally.
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