The man dies in all those that keep silent.
WOLE SOYINKAGovernance can dig itself into a huge hole and not even know it’s in there.
More Wole Soyinka Quotes
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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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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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For me, justice is the prime condition of humanity.
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A tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he pounces.
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It’s the place to begin, always — to return to home, literally.
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My understanding of the creative process is simply that all cultures and all concerns meet at a certain point, the human point in which everything is related to one another. That has been my creative experience.
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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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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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Governance can dig itself into a huge hole and not even know it’s in there.
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I believe that each writer must decide in which language he or she is most comfortable.
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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 have no money to give to you but I have ideas and organizational capacity.
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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 can look violence in the face and either reject or accept it.
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