Well, some people say I’m pessimistic because I recognize the eternal cycle of evil. All I say is, look at the history of mankind right up to this moment and what do you find?
WOLE SOYINKAWhen a leader encourages the culture of impunity, the society is lost and it makes the work harder for the rest of us.
More Wole Soyinka Quotes
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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.
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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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I believe that each writer must decide in which language he or she is most comfortable.
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See, even despite pious statements to the contrary, much of the industrialized world has not yet come to terms with the recognition of the fallacy of what I call the strong man syndrome.
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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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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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I think that feeling that if one believed absolutely in any cause, then one must have the confidence, the self-certainty, to go through with that particular course of action.
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Let’s say there are prospects for a new Nigeria, but I don’t think we have a new Nigeria yet.
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I don’t really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident.
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If man cannot, what god dare claim perfection?
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For me, a writer is already being the deuce of his mission, his occupation to society.
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Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.
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Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.
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But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That’s all.
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History teaches us to beware of the excitation of the liberated and the injustices that often accompany their righteous thirst for justice.
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