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.
WOLE SOYINKAThe greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.
More Wole Soyinka Quotes
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To achieve any change in the minds of the youth, there must be reorientation in terms of materialistic tendencies, corruption and crime generally.
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Let’s say there are prospects for a new Nigeria, but I don’t think we have a new Nigeria yet.
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I am a very curious person; I’ll always ask: is this thing true, is it not true? And I use my own means to investigate and come to my conclusion.
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Writers are human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.
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I have one abiding religion-human liberty.
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Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.
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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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And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others.
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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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If man cannot, what god dare claim perfection?
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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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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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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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You have the entire gamut of human experience captured in the mythology of the Yoruba. This is what makes the Yoruba mythology a natural source material for me in my creative endeavours.
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Intolerance has become, I think, the reigning ideology of the world today, the intolerance versus intolerance and it’s taken on lethal proportions.
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