The media owes the responsibility to constantly tell the public the truth.
WOLE SOYINKAEach time I think Ive created time for myself, along comes a throwback to disrupt my private space.
More Wole Soyinka Quotes
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I have one abiding religion-human liberty.
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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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Intolerance has always been with us, you know. The moment you have ideology, we have intolerance, whether it’s the secular ideology or, you know ideocratic ideology, which always brings with it some kind of intolerance.
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My 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.
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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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The writer is the visionary of his people… He anticipates, he warns.
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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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History teaches us to beware of the excitation of the liberated and the injustices that often accompany their righteous thirst for justice.
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Governance can dig itself into a huge hole and not even know it’s in there.
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A tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he pounces.
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The hand that dips into the bottom of the pot will eat the biggest snail.
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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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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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No man beholds his mother’s womb Yet who denies it’s there? Coiled To the navel of the world is that Endless cord that links us all To the great Origin. If I lose my way. The trailing cord will bring me to the roots.
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