If man cannot, what god dare claim perfection?
WOLE SOYINKA
The hand that dips into the bottom of the pot will eat the biggest snail.
More Wole Soyinka Quotes
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If man cannot, what god dare claim perfection?
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For me, a writer is already being the deuce of his mission, his occupation to society.
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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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Very conscious of the fact that an effort was being made to destroy my mind, because I was deprived of books, deprived of any means of writing, deprived of human companionship. You never know how much you need it until you’re deprived of it.
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I know there are writers who get up every morning and sit by their typewriter or word processor or pad of paper and wait to write. I don’t function that way. I go through a long period of gestation before I’m even ready to write.
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When a leader encourages the culture of impunity, the society is lost and it makes the work harder for the rest of us.
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For me, justice is the prime condition of humanity.
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The media owes the responsibility to constantly tell the public the truth.
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Sadness is twilight’s kiss on earth.
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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.
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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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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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You accept whoever you are interacting with, directly, or indirectly.
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