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.
WOLE SOYINKAThe greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.
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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 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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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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Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.
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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 no money to give to you but I have ideas and organizational capacity.
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Each time I think Ive created time for myself, along comes a throwback to disrupt my private space.
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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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Governance can dig itself into a huge hole and not even know it’s in there.
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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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We do not ask the mountain’s aid to crack a walnut.
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For me, a writer is already being the deuce of his mission, his occupation to society.
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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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I began writing early – very, very early… I was already writing short stories for the radio and selling poems to poetry and art festivals; I was involved in school plays; I wrote essays, so there was no definite moment when I said, ‘Now I’m a writer.’ I’ve always been a writer.
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The media owes the responsibility to constantly tell the public the truth.
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