If man cannot, what god dare claim perfection?
WOLE SOYINKAFor me, justice is the prime condition of humanity.
More Wole Soyinka Quotes
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But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That’s all.
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Each time I think Ive created time for myself, along comes a throwback to disrupt my private space.
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I don’t really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident.
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A human feast is an indifferent morsel to a god.
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Romance is the sweetening of the soul With fragrance offered by the stricken heart.
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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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The youth should come together to challenge the status quo. They must not give up.
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There’s a lot of insincerity about the actions of our legislators; they create distractions – like this anti-gay law you alluded to – and try to mobilise, to exacerbate people’s emotions. Until the legislators started making laws, people minded, generally, their own business.
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To achieve any change in the minds of the youth, there must be reorientation in terms of materialistic tendencies, corruption and crime generally.
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Writers are human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.
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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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My understanding of the creative process is simply that all cultures and all concerns meet at a certain point, the human point in which everything is related to one another. That has been my creative experience.
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I have no money to give to you but I have ideas and organizational capacity.
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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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I said: “A tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he pounces”. In other words: a tiger does not stand in the forest and say: “I am a tiger”. When you pass where the tiger has walked before, you see the skeleton of the duiker, you know that some tigritude has been emanated there.
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