Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.
WOLE SOYINKAYou accept whoever you are interacting with, directly, or indirectly.
More Wole Soyinka Quotes
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Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.
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I consider the process of gestation just as important as when you’re actually sitting down putting words to the paper.
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Governance can dig itself into a huge hole and not even know it’s in there.
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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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And gradually they’re beginning to recognize the fact that there’s nothing more secure than a democratic, accountable, and participatory form of government. But it’s sunk in only theoretically, it has not yet sunk in completely in practical terms.
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If man cannot, what god dare claim perfection?
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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 don’t really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident.
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Colonialism bred an innate arrogance, but when you undertake that sort of imperial adventure, that arrogance gives way to a feeling of accommodativeness. You take pride in your openness.
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The writer is the visionary of his people… He anticipates, he warns.
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We live in a materialist world, and materialism appeals so strongly to humanity, no matter where.
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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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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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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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It’s the place to begin, always — to return to home, literally.
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