We all have our individual artistic temperaments as well as partisanships in creative directions. And we have strong opinions on the merits of the products of our occupation.
WOLE SOYINKAYou accept whoever you are interacting with, directly, or indirectly.
More Wole Soyinka Quotes
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See, even despite pious statements to the contrary, much of the industrialized world has not yet come to terms with the recognition of the fallacy of what I call the strong man syndrome.
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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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It is the human potentials that interest me. I travel and everywhere I go I am amazed at the presence of Nigerians. The intelligence, integrity, productivity, initiative.
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A tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he pounces.
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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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Sadness is twilight’s kiss on earth.
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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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Looking at faces of people, one gets the feeling there’s a lot of work to be done.
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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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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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I know there are writers who get up every morning and sit by their typewriter or word processor or pad of paper and wait to write. I don’t function that way. I go through a long period of gestation before I’m even ready to write.
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I don’t really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident.
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A human feast is an indifferent morsel to a god.
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Don’t take shadows too seriously. Reality is your only safety. Continue to reject illusion.
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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.
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