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.
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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Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.
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Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.
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Writers are human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.
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For me, justice is the prime condition of humanity.
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Governance can dig itself into a huge hole and not even know it’s in there.
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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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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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There’s a lot of insincerity about the actions of our legislators; they create distractions – like this anti-gay law you alluded to – and try to mobilise, to exacerbate people’s emotions. Until the legislators started making laws, people minded, generally, their own business.
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Don’t take shadows too seriously. Reality is your only safety. Continue to reject illusion.
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I have no money to give to you but I have ideas and organizational capacity.
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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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You accept whoever you are interacting with, directly, or indirectly.
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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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