As a global citizen, I sometimes feel like denying my identity.
WOLE SOYINKAYou accept whoever you are interacting with, directly, or indirectly.
More Wole Soyinka Quotes
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The writer is the visionary of his people… He anticipates, he warns.
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But when you’re deprived of it for a lengthy period then you value human companionship. But you have to survive and so you devise all kinds of mental exercises and it’s amazing.
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No man beholds his mother’s womb Yet who denies it’s there? Coiled To the navel of the world is that Endless cord that links us all To the great Origin. If I lose my way. The trailing cord will bring me to the roots.
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There is something really horrific for any human being who feels he is being consumed by other people.
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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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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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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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Looking at faces of people, one gets the feeling there’s a lot of work to be done.
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It’s the place to begin, always — to return to home, literally.
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Governance can dig itself into a huge hole and not even know it’s in there.
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The youth should come together to challenge the status quo. They must not give up.
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Writers are human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.
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For me, a writer is already being the deuce of his mission, his occupation to society.
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When you are looking for corruption, you should look at the entire stratum of the society, while some forms of corruption are direct, others are indirect.
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You cannot live a normal existence if you haven’t taken care of a problem that affects your life and affects the lives of others, values that you hold which in fact define your very existence.
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