The man dies in all those that keep silent.
WOLE SOYINKAEverybody knows that fraternities are a normal culture in all colleges. It exists in all colleges. President Clinton was a member of a fraternity. In fact, anybody who goes to College in the United States is a member of a College fraternity. There is absolutely nothing evil or occultic about fraternity.
More Wole Soyinka Quotes
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A human feast is an indifferent morsel to a god.
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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 began writing early – very, very early… I was already writing short stories for the radio and selling poems to poetry and art festivals; I was involved in school plays; I wrote essays, so there was no definite moment when I said, ‘Now I’m a writer.’ I’ve always been a writer.
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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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When a leader encourages the culture of impunity, the society is lost and it makes the work harder for the rest of us.
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But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That’s all.
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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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Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.
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The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.
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The youth should come together to challenge the status quo. They must not give up.
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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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I never hesitated, as a student, in embracing the necessity of violence. In South Africa, I didn’t just accept it; I looked forward to it as a mission.
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It is the human potentials that interest me. I travel and everywhere I go I am amazed at the presence of Nigerians. The intelligence, integrity, productivity, initiative.
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I have no money to give to you but I have ideas and organizational capacity.
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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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