Be yourself. Ultimately just be yourself.
WOLE SOYINKAThe greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.
More Wole Soyinka Quotes
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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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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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Mythology can be used, and has been used, even to re-state, you know, the very urgent problems of the world.
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For me, justice is the prime condition of humanity.
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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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The media owes the responsibility to constantly tell the public the truth.
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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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When you are looking for corruption, you should look at the entire stratum of the society, while some forms of corruption are direct, others are indirect.
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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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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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But 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.
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I don’t know any other way to live but to wake up everyday armed with my convictions, not yielding them to the threat of danger and to the power and force of people who might despise me.
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You accept whoever you are interacting with, directly, or indirectly.
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Governance can dig itself into a huge hole and not even know it’s in there.
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Some of us – poets are not exactly poets. We live sometimes – beyond the word.
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