I consider the process of gestation just as important as when you’re actually sitting down putting words to the paper.
WOLE SOYINKAI am convinced that Nigeria would have been a more highly developed country without the oil. I wished we’d never smelled the fumes of petroleum.
More Wole Soyinka Quotes
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For me, a writer is already being the deuce of his mission, his occupation to society.
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A human feast is an indifferent morsel to a god.
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I can look violence in the face and either reject or accept it.
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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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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 must be used effectively to reach the masses. You have to find a new language in which to address the people and demonstrate what is possible.
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Well, some people say I’m pessimistic because I recognize the eternal cycle of evil. All I say is, look at the history of mankind right up to this moment and what do you find?
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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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Governance can dig itself into a huge hole and not even know it’s in there.
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The media owes the responsibility to constantly tell the public the truth.
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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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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.
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For me, justice is the prime condition of humanity.
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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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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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