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.
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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Looking at faces of people, one gets the feeling there’s a lot of work to be done.
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Alfred Nobel regretted that his invention, dynamite, was converted to degrading use, hence his creation of the Nobel Prize, as the humanist counter to the destructive power of his genius.
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You accept whoever you are interacting with, directly, or indirectly.
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Culture is a matrix of infinite possibilities and choices. From within the same culture matrix we can extract arguments and strategies for the degradation and ennoblement of our species, for its enslavement or liberation, for the suppression of its productive potential or its enhancement.
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It’s the place to begin, always — to return to home, literally.
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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 don’t really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident.
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We do not ask the mountain’s aid to crack a walnut.
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Governance can dig itself into a huge hole and not even know it’s in there.
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For me, justice is the prime condition of humanity.
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Some of us – poets are not exactly poets. We live sometimes – beyond the word.
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Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.
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I have one abiding religion-human liberty.
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Be yourself. Ultimately just be yourself.
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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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