Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.
WOLE SOYINKAYou accept whoever you are interacting with, directly, or indirectly.
More Wole Soyinka Quotes
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My definition of slavery is the deprivation of human volition, any form of relationship between two peoples which is based on the deprivation of volition of one side.
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A tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he pounces.
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Looking at faces of people, one gets the feeling there’s a lot of work to be done.
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. . . as far as the regime is concerned, well, the play is sheer terror for them. Because they feel, How dare – how dare anybody lift his or her voice in criticism against us? We have the guns. Their level of paranoia and power-drunkenness is unbelievable.
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Religion has really spawned some monsters. It always has, historically. Go all the way back to the Inquisition, you know, the Crusades, the Jehad and so on.
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Romance is the sweetening of the soul With fragrance offered by the stricken heart.
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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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I believe that each writer must decide in which language he or she is most comfortable.
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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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As a global citizen, I sometimes feel like denying my identity.
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I rarely use mythology for its own sake because, as a theatre person, the mythological figures are in fact humanity to the ninth degree and Yoruba mythology in particular has fascination of being one of the most humanised mythologies in the world.
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Arts and the Sciences are a natural symbiosis. They stem from the same human existential impulse – exploration. Exploration of what lies beneath the surface, and re-confuguration of elements of what we call reality.
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Be yourself. Ultimately just be yourself.
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Culture is a matrix of infinite possibilities and choices. From within the same culture matrix we can extract arguments and strategies for the degradation and ennoblement of our species, for its enslavement or liberation, for the suppression of its productive potential or its enhancement.
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The media owes the responsibility to constantly tell the public the truth.
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