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.
WOLE SOYINKAYou accept whoever you are interacting with, directly, or indirectly.
More Wole Soyinka Quotes
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When I say war, I’m not talking about mental war; I’m talking about totally eliminating the obstacles to transformation of our children.
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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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Don’t take shadows too seriously. Reality is your only safety. Continue to reject illusion.
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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.
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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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We do not ask the mountain’s aid to crack a walnut.
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I cannot accept the definition of collective good as articulated by a privileged minority in society, especially when that minority is in power.
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Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.
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Be yourself. Ultimately just be yourself.
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I don’t know any other way to live but to wake up everyday armed with my convictions, not yielding them to the threat of danger and to the power and force of people who might despise me.
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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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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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Writers are human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.
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Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.
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