But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That’s all.
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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For me, justice is the prime condition of humanity.
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When 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.
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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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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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I rarely use mythology for its own sake because, as a theatre person, the mythological figures are in fact humanity to the ninth degree and Yoruba mythology in particular has fascination of being one of the most humanised mythologies in the world.
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You accept whoever you are interacting with, directly, or indirectly.
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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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Each time I think Ive created time for myself, along comes a throwback to disrupt my private space.
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I have no money to give to you but I have ideas and organizational capacity.
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A human feast is an indifferent morsel to a god.
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I cannot accept the definition of collective good as articulated by a privileged minority in society, especially when that minority is in power.
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The man dies in all those that keep silent.
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The writer is the visionary of his people… He anticipates, he warns.
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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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If man cannot, what god dare claim perfection?
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