Well, some people say I’m pessimistic because I recognize the eternal cycle of evil. All I say is, look at the history of mankind right up to this moment and what do you find?
WOLE SOYINKA. . . as far as the regime is concerned, well, the play is sheer terror for them. Because they feel, How dare – how dare anybody lift his or her voice in criticism against us? We have the guns. Their level of paranoia and power-drunkenness is unbelievable.
More Wole Soyinka Quotes
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A tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he pounces.
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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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The hand that dips into the bottom of the pot will eat the biggest snail.
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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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Sadness is twilight’s kiss on earth.
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I never hesitated, as a student, in embracing the necessity of violence. In South Africa, I didn’t just accept it; I looked forward to it as a mission.
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I have no money to give to you but I have ideas and organizational capacity.
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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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If man cannot, what god dare claim perfection?
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I have one abiding religion-human liberty.
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Intolerance has become, I think, the reigning ideology of the world today, the intolerance versus intolerance and it’s taken on lethal proportions.
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For me, justice is the prime condition of humanity.
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I consider the process of gestation just as important as when you’re actually sitting down putting words to the paper.
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Be yourself. Ultimately just be yourself.
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But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That’s why I call it the most social of the various art forms.
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