I never hesitated, as a student, in embracing the necessity of violence. In South Africa, I didn’t just accept it; I looked forward to it as a mission.
WOLE SOYINKAWell, 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?
More Wole Soyinka Quotes
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Be yourself. Ultimately just be yourself.
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The hand that dips into the bottom of the pot will eat the biggest snail.
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I think that feeling that if one believed absolutely in any cause, then one must have the confidence, the self-certainty, to go through with that particular course of action.
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It’s the place to begin, always — to return to home, literally.
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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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I have no money to give to you but I have ideas and organizational capacity.
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A human feast is an indifferent morsel to a god.
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Writers are human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.
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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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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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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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Each time I think Ive created time for myself, along comes a throwback to disrupt my private space.
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But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That’s why I call it the most social of the various art forms.
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Governance can dig itself into a huge hole and not even know it’s in there.
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A tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he pounces.
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