I don’t really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident.
WOLE SOYINKAI cannot accept the definition of collective good as articulated by a privileged minority in society, especially when that minority is in power.
More Wole Soyinka Quotes
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Sadness is twilight’s kiss on earth.
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A tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he pounces.
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There is something really horrific for any human being who feels he is being consumed by other people.
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I have no money to give to you but I have ideas and organizational capacity.
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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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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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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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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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It’s the place to begin, always — to return to home, literally.
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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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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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But when you’re deprived of it for a lengthy period then you value human companionship. But you have to survive and so you devise all kinds of mental exercises and it’s amazing.
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Religion has really spawned some monsters. It always has, historically. Go all the way back to the Inquisition, you know, the Crusades, the Jehad and so on.
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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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I can look violence in the face and either reject or accept it.
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