Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.
WOLE SOYINKANo 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.
More Wole Soyinka Quotes
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We live in a materialist world, and materialism appeals so strongly to humanity, no matter where.
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My definition of slavery is the deprivation of human volition, any form of relationship between two peoples which is based on the deprivation of volition of one side.
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Intolerance has always been with us, you know. The moment you have ideology, we have intolerance, whether it’s the secular ideology or, you know ideocratic ideology, which always brings with it some kind of intolerance.
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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 consider the process of gestation just as important as when you’re actually sitting down putting words to the paper.
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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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Colonialism bred an innate arrogance, but when you undertake that sort of imperial adventure, that arrogance gives way to a feeling of accommodativeness. You take pride in your openness.
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I am convinced that Nigeria would have been a more highly developed country without the oil. I wished we’d never smelled the fumes of petroleum.
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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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Some of us – poets are not exactly poets. We live sometimes – beyond the word.
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The hand that dips into the bottom of the pot will eat the biggest snail.
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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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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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It’s the place to begin, always — to return to home, literally.
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And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others.
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