I have no money to give to you but I have ideas and organizational capacity.
WOLE SOYINKAWe do not ask the mountain’s aid to crack a walnut.
More Wole Soyinka Quotes
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Looking at faces of people, one gets the feeling there’s a lot of work to be done.
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The media owes the responsibility to constantly tell the public the truth.
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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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I don’t really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident.
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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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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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Governance can dig itself into a huge hole and not even know it’s in there.
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You cannot live a normal existence if you haven’t taken care of a problem that affects your life and affects the lives of others, values that you hold which in fact define your very existence.
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When a leader encourages the culture of impunity, the society is lost and it makes the work harder for the rest of us.
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The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.
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I’m not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning, put a piece of paper in their typewriter machine and start writing. That I’ve never understood.
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A human feast is an indifferent morsel to a god.
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For me, justice is the prime condition of humanity.
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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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Writers are human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.
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