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.
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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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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Be yourself. Ultimately just be yourself.
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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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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 said: “A tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he pounces”. In other words: a tiger does not stand in the forest and say: “I am a tiger”. When you pass where the tiger has walked before, you see the skeleton of the duiker, you know that some tigritude has been emanated there.
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You accept whoever you are interacting with, directly, or indirectly.
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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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The youth should come together to challenge the status quo. They must not give up.
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Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.
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The man dies in all those that keep silent.
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I can look violence in the face and either reject or accept it.
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But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That’s all.
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I rarely use mythology for its own sake because, as a theatre person, the mythological figures are in fact humanity to the ninth degree and Yoruba mythology in particular has fascination of being one of the most humanised mythologies in the world.
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Sadness is twilight’s kiss on earth.
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I have no money to give to you but I have ideas and organizational capacity.
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