It’s the place to begin, always — to return to home, literally.
WOLE SOYINKAMy 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.
More Wole Soyinka Quotes
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The youth should come together to challenge the status quo. They must not give up.
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A human feast is an indifferent morsel to a god.
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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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I’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.
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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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See, even despite pious statements to the contrary, much of the industrialized world has not yet come to terms with the recognition of the fallacy of what I call the strong man syndrome.
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We live in a materialist world, and materialism appeals so strongly to humanity, no matter where.
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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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Writers are human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.
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Sadness is twilight’s kiss on earth.
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You accept whoever you are interacting with, directly, or indirectly.
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The media owes the responsibility to constantly tell the public the truth.
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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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But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That’s all.
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The man dies in all those that keep silent.
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