I can look violence in the face and either reject or accept it.
WOLE SOYINKABut theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That’s why I call it the most social of the various art forms.
More Wole Soyinka Quotes
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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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Governance can dig itself into a huge hole and not even know it’s in there.
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When I say war, I’m not talking about mental war; I’m talking about totally eliminating the obstacles to transformation of our children.
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The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.
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Some of us – poets are not exactly poets. We live sometimes – beyond the word.
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For me, a writer is already being the deuce of his mission, his occupation to society.
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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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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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Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.
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For me, justice is the prime condition of humanity.
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I don’t really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident.
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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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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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The hand that dips into the bottom of the pot will eat the biggest snail.
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I have one abiding religion-human liberty.
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