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.
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 consider the process of gestation just as important as when you’re actually sitting down putting words to the paper.
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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 become, I think, the reigning ideology of the world today, the intolerance versus intolerance and it’s taken on lethal proportions.
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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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Some of us – poets are not exactly poets. We live sometimes – beyond the word.
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I can look violence in the face and either reject or accept it.
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Sadness is twilight’s kiss on earth.
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A tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he pounces.
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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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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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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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Religion has really spawned some monsters. It always has, historically. Go all the way back to the Inquisition, you know, the Crusades, the Jehad and so on.
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History teaches us to beware of the excitation of the liberated and the injustices that often accompany their righteous thirst for justice.
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To achieve any change in the minds of the youth, there must be reorientation in terms of materialistic tendencies, corruption and crime generally.
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We live in a materialist world, and materialism appeals so strongly to humanity, no matter where.
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