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.
WOLE SOYINKAWhen 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.
More Wole Soyinka Quotes
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When I say war, I’m not talking about mental war; I’m talking about totally eliminating the obstacles to transformation of our children.
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Very conscious of the fact that an effort was being made to destroy my mind, because I was deprived of books, deprived of any means of writing, deprived of human companionship. You never know how much you need it until you’re deprived of it.
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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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Everybody knows that fraternities are a normal culture in all colleges. It exists in all colleges. President Clinton was a member of a fraternity. In fact, anybody who goes to College in the United States is a member of a College fraternity. There is absolutely nothing evil or occultic about fraternity.
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The media owes the responsibility to constantly tell the public the truth.
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What 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.
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Don’t take shadows too seriously. Reality is your only safety. Continue to reject illusion.
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A tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he pounces.
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If man cannot, what god dare claim perfection?
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The youth should come together to challenge the status quo. They must not give up.
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I believe that each writer must decide in which language he or she is most comfortable.
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I have one abiding religion-human liberty.
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Arts and the Sciences are a natural symbiosis. They stem from the same human existential impulse – exploration. Exploration of what lies beneath the surface, and re-confuguration of elements of what we call reality.
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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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Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.
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