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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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.
More Wole Soyinka Quotes
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The hand that dips into the bottom of the pot will eat the biggest snail.
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The youth should come together to challenge the status quo. They must not give up.
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You accept whoever you are interacting with, directly, or indirectly.
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Governance can dig itself into a huge hole and not even know it’s in there.
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I believe that each writer must decide in which language he or she is most comfortable.
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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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There is only one home to the life of a river-mussel; there is only one home to the life of a tortoise; there is only one shell to the soul of man: there is only one world to the spirit of our race. If that world leaves its course and smashes on boulders of the great void, whose world will give us shelter?
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Alfred Nobel regretted that his invention, dynamite, was converted to degrading use, hence his creation of the Nobel Prize, as the humanist counter to the destructive power of his genius.
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The writer is the visionary of his people… He anticipates, he warns.
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The man dies in all those that keep silent.
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