The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.
WOLE SOYINKAThe writer is the visionary of his people… He anticipates, he warns.
More Wole Soyinka Quotes
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The man dies in all those that keep silent.
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Intolerance has always been with us, you know. The moment you have ideology, we have intolerance, whether it’s the secular ideology or, you know ideocratic ideology, which always brings with it some kind of intolerance.
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When a leader encourages the culture of impunity, the society is lost and it makes the work harder for the rest of us.
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I believe that each writer must decide in which language he or she is most comfortable.
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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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My father used to tell me stories before I fell asleep. When the children would gather, at a certain point, I had a tendency to make up my own elementary variations on stories I had heard, or to invent totally new ones.
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Romance is the sweetening of the soul With fragrance offered by the stricken heart.
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Governance can dig itself into a huge hole and not even know it’s in there.
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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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You accept whoever you are interacting with, directly, or indirectly.
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I can look violence in the face and either reject or accept it.
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I don’t really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident.
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When I say war, I’m not talking about mental war; I’m talking about totally eliminating the obstacles to transformation of our children.
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I’m not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning, put a piece of paper in their typewriter machine and start writing. That I’ve never understood.
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Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.
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