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.
WOLE SOYINKAThe writer is the visionary of his people… He anticipates, he warns.
More Wole Soyinka Quotes
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The media owes the responsibility to constantly tell the public the truth.
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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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If man cannot, what god dare claim perfection?
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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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A human feast is an indifferent morsel to a god.
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A tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he pounces.
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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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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 believe that each writer must decide in which language he or she is most comfortable.
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Romance is the sweetening of the soul With fragrance offered by the stricken heart.
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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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My father used to tell me stories before I fell asleep. When the children would gather, at a certain point, I had a tendency to make up my own elementary variations on stories I had heard, or to invent totally new ones.
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The hand that dips into the bottom of the pot will eat the biggest snail.
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It’s the place to begin, always — to return to home, literally.
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Religion has really spawned some monsters. It always has, historically. Go all the way back to the Inquisition, you know, the Crusades, the Jehad and so on.
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