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There is something really horrific for any human being who feels he is being consumed by other people.

Wole Soyinka

The media must be used effectively to reach the masses. You have to find a new language in which to address the people and demonstrate what is possible.
WOLE SOYINKA

Address Demonstrate Effectively Find Language Mass Media Must New People Reach Use
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.
WOLE SOYINKA

Come Contrary Despite Even Fallacy Industrialized Pious Recognition See Statement Term World
The media owes the responsibility to constantly tell the public the truth.
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Constantly Media Public Responsibility Truth
When a leader encourages the culture of impunity, the society is lost and it makes the work harder for the rest of us.
WOLE SOYINKA

Culture Encourage Harder Impurity Lost Make Rest Society Us World
You accept whoever you are interacting with, directly, or indirectly.
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Accept Direct Indirectly Interact Whoever
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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Every Get Know Morning Paid Paper Processor Typewriter Wait Word Write Writer
Romance is the sweetening of the soul With fragrance offered by the stricken heart.
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Fragrance Heart Offer Romance Soul Sticken Sweetening
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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All Behold Collect Denies Endless Link Man Mother Navel No Us Womb World
My father used to tell me stories before I fell asleep. When the children would gather, at a certain point, I had a tendency to make up my own elementary variations on stories I had heard, or to invent totally new ones.
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Asleep Certain Children Father Fell Gather Point Story Use
A tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he pounces.
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Does Proclaim Pounce Tiger Tigribute
For me, a writer is already being the deuce of his mission, his occupation to society.
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Already Being Deuce Mission Occupation Society Writer
I said: “A tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he pounces”. In other words: a tiger does not stand in the forest and say: “I am a tiger”. When you pass where the tiger has walked before, you see the skeleton of the duiker, you know that some tigritude has been emanated there.
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Other Prince Proclaim Say Stand Tiger Tignitude Word
If man cannot, what god dare claim perfection?
WOLE SOYINKA

Claim Dare God Man Perfection
I have no money to give to you but I have ideas and organizational capacity.
WOLE SOYINKA

Capacity Give Idea Money Organizational You
Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom.
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Antagonism Anthisesis Even First Form Hardly Power Resolve Thing Truth Well
I have one abiding religion-human liberty.
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Abide Body Have Human One Religion

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