Mythology can be used, and has been used, even to re-state, you know, the very urgent problems of the world.
WOLE SOYINKAI am a very curious person; I’ll always ask: is this thing true, is it not true? And I use my own means to investigate and come to my conclusion.
More Wole Soyinka Quotes
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It’s the place to begin, always — to return to home, literally.
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And gradually they’re beginning to recognize the fact that there’s nothing more secure than a democratic, accountable, and participatory form of government. But it’s sunk in only theoretically, it has not yet sunk in completely in practical terms.
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I know there are writers who get up every morning and sit by their typewriter or word processor or pad of paper and wait to write. I don’t function that way. I go through a long period of gestation before I’m even ready to write.
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Writers are human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.
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Be yourself. Ultimately just be yourself.
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Governance can dig itself into a huge hole and not even know it’s in there.
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When you are looking for corruption, you should look at the entire stratum of the society, while some forms of corruption are direct, others are indirect.
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Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.
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Intolerance has become, I think, the reigning ideology of the world today, the intolerance versus intolerance and it’s taken on lethal proportions.
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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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Some of us – poets are not exactly poets. We live sometimes – beyond the word.
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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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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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I believe that each writer must decide in which language he or she is most comfortable.
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Well, some people say I’m pessimistic because I recognize the eternal cycle of evil. All I say is, look at the history of mankind right up to this moment and what do you find?
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