It’s the place to begin, always — to return to home, literally.
WOLE SOYINKAThe greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.
More Wole Soyinka Quotes
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I think that feeling that if one believed absolutely in any cause, then one must have the confidence, the self-certainty, to go through with that particular course of action.
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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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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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You accept whoever you are interacting with, directly, or indirectly.
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The man dies in all those that keep silent.
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Governance can dig itself into a huge hole and not even know it’s in there.
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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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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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Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.
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Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.
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My understanding of the creative process is simply that all cultures and all concerns meet at a certain point, the human point in which everything is related to one another. That has been my creative experience.
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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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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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Looking at faces of people, one gets the feeling there’s a lot of work to be done.
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Everybody 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.
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