I don’t really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident.
WOLE SOYINKABut 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.
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Mythology can be used, and has been used, even to re-state, you know, the very urgent problems of the world.
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The media owes the responsibility to constantly tell the public the truth.
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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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There is something really horrific for any human being who feels he is being consumed by other people.
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For me, justice is the prime condition of humanity.
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I think that feeling that if one believed absolutely in any cause, then one must have the confidence, the self-certainty, to go through with that particular course of action.
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A human feast is an indifferent morsel to a god.
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You cannot live a normal existence if you haven’t taken care of a problem that affects your life and affects the lives of others, values that you hold which in fact define your very existence.
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As a global citizen, I sometimes feel like denying my identity.
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And gradually they’re beginning to recognize the fact that there’s nothing more secure than a democratic, accountable, and participatory form of government. But it’s sunk in only theoretically, it has not yet sunk in completely in practical terms.
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We all have our individual artistic temperaments as well as partisanships in creative directions. And we have strong opinions on the merits of the products of our occupation.
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The writer is the visionary of his people… He anticipates, he warns.
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You accept whoever you are interacting with, directly, or indirectly.
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The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.
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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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