There is something really horrific for any human being who feels he is being consumed by other people.
WOLE SOYINKAThere is something really horrific for any human being who feels he is being consumed by other people.
WOLE SOYINKAWhat I teach is literary criticism and comparative literature and so on and that’s my function, but from time to time it’s possible for me actually to help a writer. I read something and something strikes me then, I feel I can talk to that writer about it.
WOLE SOYINKAThe media owes the responsibility to constantly tell the public the truth.
WOLE SOYINKAI 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.
WOLE SOYINKAAs a global citizen, I sometimes feel like denying my identity.
WOLE SOYINKAIt’s the place to begin, always — to return to home, literally.
WOLE SOYINKAFor me, a writer is already being the deuce of his mission, his occupation to society.
WOLE SOYINKABut 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.
WOLE SOYINKAWriters are human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.
WOLE SOYINKAThe media must be used effectively to reach the masses. You have to find a new language in which to address the people and demonstrate what is possible.
WOLE SOYINKAWe live in a materialist world, and materialism appeals so strongly to humanity, no matter where.
WOLE SOYINKAI can look violence in the face and either reject or accept it.
WOLE SOYINKAFor me, justice is the prime condition of humanity.
WOLE SOYINKAYou 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.
WOLE SOYINKAMythology can be used, and has been used, even to re-state, you know, the very urgent problems of the world.
WOLE SOYINKAA tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he pounces.
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