Very conscious of the fact that an effort was being made to destroy my mind, because I was deprived of books, deprived of any means of writing, deprived of human companionship. You never know how much you need it until you’re deprived of it.
WOLE SOYINKAThe writer is the visionary of his people… He anticipates, he warns.
More Wole Soyinka Quotes
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Sadness is twilight’s kiss on earth.
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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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You accept whoever you are interacting with, directly, or indirectly.
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I have one abiding religion-human liberty.
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For me, justice is the prime condition of humanity.
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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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Colonialism bred an innate arrogance, but when you undertake that sort of imperial adventure, that arrogance gives way to a feeling of accommodativeness. You take pride in your openness.
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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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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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I don’t really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident.
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But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That’s all.
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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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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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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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