Religion has really spawned some monsters. It always has, historically. Go all the way back to the Inquisition, you know, the Crusades, the Jehad and so on.
WOLE SOYINKALet’s say there are prospects for a new Nigeria, but I don’t think we have a new Nigeria yet.
More Wole Soyinka Quotes
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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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Looking at faces of people, one gets the feeling there’s a lot of work to be done.
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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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Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.
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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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Don’t take shadows too seriously. Reality is your only safety. Continue to reject illusion.
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Writers are human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.
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It’s the place to begin, always — to return to home, literally.
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For me, justice is the prime condition of humanity.
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Be yourself. Ultimately just be yourself.
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I have no money to give to you but I have ideas and organizational capacity.
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I don’t really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident.
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I believe that each writer must decide in which language he or she is most comfortable.
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But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That’s all.
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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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