The youth should come together to challenge the status quo. They must not give up.
WOLE SOYINKAThere is something really horrific for any human being who feels he is being consumed by other people.
More Wole Soyinka Quotes
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Governance can dig itself into a huge hole and not even know it’s in there.
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The writer is the visionary of his people… He anticipates, he warns.
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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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Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.
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The media owes the responsibility to constantly tell the public the truth.
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What I teach is literary criticism and comparative literature and so on and that’s my function, but from time to time it’s possible for me actually to help a writer. I read something and something strikes me then, I feel I can talk to that writer about it.
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A human feast is an indifferent morsel to a god.
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Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.
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We do not ask the mountain’s aid to crack a walnut.
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We live in a materialist world, and materialism appeals so strongly to humanity, no matter where.
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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 have no money to give to you but I have ideas and organizational capacity.
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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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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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You accept whoever you are interacting with, directly, or indirectly.
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