Romance is the sweetening of the soul With fragrance offered by the stricken heart.
WOLE SOYINKAI said: “A tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he pounces”. In other words: a tiger does not stand in the forest and say: “I am a tiger”. When you pass where the tiger has walked before, you see the skeleton of the duiker, you know that some tigritude has been emanated there.
More Wole Soyinka Quotes
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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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Each time I think Ive created time for myself, along comes a throwback to disrupt my private space.
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For me, justice is the prime condition of humanity.
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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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There’s a lot of insincerity about the actions of our legislators; they create distractions – like this anti-gay law you alluded to – and try to mobilise, to exacerbate people’s emotions. Until the legislators started making laws, people minded, generally, their own business.
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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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I have no money to give to you but I have ideas and organizational capacity.
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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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Sadness is twilight’s kiss on earth.
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My father used to tell me stories before I fell asleep. When the children would gather, at a certain point, I had a tendency to make up my own elementary variations on stories I had heard, or to invent totally new ones.
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I am convinced that Nigeria would have been a more highly developed country without the oil. I wished we’d never smelled the fumes of petroleum.
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You accept whoever you are interacting with, directly, or indirectly.
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I don’t really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident.
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I have one abiding religion-human liberty.
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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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