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We all have our individual artistic temperaments as well as partisanships in creative directions. And we have strong opinions on the merits of the products of our occupation.

Wole Soyinka

But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That’s all.
WOLE SOYINKA

All Lesson Sit Sown Ultimate Write
I don’t know any other way to live but to wake up everyday armed with my convictions, not yielding them to the threat of danger and to the power and force of people who might despise me.
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Arm Conviction Danger Day Every Know Other Power Threat Wake Way Yield
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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All Behold Collect Denies Endless Link Man Mother Navel No Us Womb World
I’m not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning, put a piece of paper in their typewriter machine and start writing. That I’ve never understood.
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Learn Machine Morning Paper Piece Put Start Typewriter Writer Writing
It is the human potentials that interest me. I travel and everywhere I go I am amazed at the presence of Nigerians. The intelligence, integrity, productivity, initiative.
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Amaze Country Everywhere Human Interest People Person Potential Presence Travel
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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Become Ideology Intolerance Reigning Think Today Whole World
I believe that each writer must decide in which language he or she is most comfortable.
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Believe Comfortable Each Language Most Must Decide Writer
It’s the place to begin, always — to return to home, literally.
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Always Begin Home Literally Place Return
My father used to tell me stories before I fell asleep. When the children would gather, at a certain point, I had a tendency to make up my own elementary variations on stories I had heard, or to invent totally new ones.
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Asleep Certain Children Father Fell Gather Point Story Use
The youth should come together to challenge the status quo. They must not give up.
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Challenge Come Give Must Status Together Youth
Each time I think Ive created time for myself, along comes a throwback to disrupt my private space.
WOLE SOYINKA

Create Disrupt Each Myself Private Some Space Think Throwback Time
The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.
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Absence Criticism Freedom Greatest Threat
Mythology can be used, and has been used, even to re-state, you know, the very urgent problems of the world.
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Been Mythological Problem State Urgent Use Very World
There is only one home to the life of a river-mussel; there is only one home to the life of a tortoise; there is only one shell to the soul of man: there is only one world to the spirit of our race. If that world leaves its course and smashes on boulders of the great void, whose world will give us shelter?
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Home Idea Life Man Mussel One Only River Shell Soul Tortoise
Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.
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Control Domination Form Lie Power Selective Therefore Truth
For me, a writer is already being the deuce of his mission, his occupation to society.
WOLE SOYINKA

Already Being Deuce Mission Occupation Society Writer

We all have our individual artistic temperaments as well as partisanships in creative directions. And we have strong opinions on the merits of the products of our occupation.

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