Some of us – poets are not exactly poets. We live sometimes – beyond the word.
WOLE SOYINKAThe greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.
More Wole Soyinka Quotes
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I cannot accept the definition of collective good as articulated by a privileged minority in society, especially when that minority is in power.
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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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It’s the place to begin, always — to return to home, literally.
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A tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he pounces.
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Sadness is twilight’s kiss on earth.
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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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Writers are human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.
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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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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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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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I have one abiding religion-human liberty.
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Romance is the sweetening of the soul With fragrance offered by the stricken heart.
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We live in a materialist world, and materialism appeals so strongly to humanity, no matter where.
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I have no money to give to you but I have ideas and organizational capacity.
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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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