I can look violence in the face and either reject or accept it.
WOLE SOYINKAWriters are human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.
More Wole Soyinka Quotes
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The media owes the responsibility to constantly tell the public the truth.
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I don’t really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident.
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Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom.
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For me, a writer is already being the deuce of his mission, his occupation to society.
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The writer is the visionary of his people… He anticipates, he warns.
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The 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.
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Some of us – poets are not exactly poets. We live sometimes – beyond the word.
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My definition of slavery is the deprivation of human volition, any form of relationship between two peoples which is based on the deprivation of volition of one side.
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It’s the place to begin, always — to return to home, literally.
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I never hesitated, as a student, in embracing the necessity of violence. In South Africa, I didn’t just accept it; I looked forward to it as a mission.
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Writers are human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.
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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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A tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he pounces.
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Culture is a matrix of infinite possibilities and choices. From within the same culture matrix we can extract arguments and strategies for the degradation and ennoblement of our species, for its enslavement or liberation, for the suppression of its productive potential or its enhancement.
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I think that feeling that if one believed absolutely in any cause, then one must have the confidence, the self-certainty, to go through with that particular course of action.
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