It’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.
More Wole Soyinka Quotes
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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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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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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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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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As a global citizen, I sometimes feel like denying my identity.
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I have one abiding religion-human liberty.
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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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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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Looking at faces of people, one gets the feeling there’s a lot of work to be done.
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The writer is the visionary of his people… He anticipates, he warns.
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You have the entire gamut of human experience captured in the mythology of the Yoruba. This is what makes the Yoruba mythology a natural source material for me in my creative endeavours.
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I have no money to give to you but I have ideas and organizational capacity.
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Don’t take shadows too seriously. Reality is your only safety. Continue to reject illusion.
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But 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.
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The hand that dips into the bottom of the pot will eat the biggest snail.
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