I have one abiding religion-human liberty.
WOLE SOYINKAThe writer is the visionary of his people… He anticipates, he warns.
More Wole Soyinka Quotes
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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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It’s the place to begin, always — to return to home, literally.
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It is the human potentials that interest me. I travel and everywhere I go I am amazed at the presence of Nigerians. The intelligence, integrity, productivity, initiative.
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I am convinced that Nigeria would have been a more highly developed country without the oil. I wished we’d never smelled the fumes of petroleum.
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When you are looking for corruption, you should look at the entire stratum of the society, while some forms of corruption are direct, others are indirect.
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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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Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.
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Looking at faces of people, one gets the feeling there’s a lot of work to be done.
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The man dies in all those that keep silent.
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Culture is a matrix of infinite possibilities and choices. From within the same culture matrix we can extract arguments and strategies for the degradation and ennoblement of our species, for its enslavement or liberation, for the suppression of its productive potential or its enhancement.
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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 don’t really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident.
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To achieve any change in the minds of the youth, there must be reorientation in terms of materialistic tendencies, corruption and crime generally.
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We do not ask the mountain’s aid to crack a walnut.
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Don’t take shadows too seriously. Reality is your only safety. Continue to reject illusion.
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