It’s the place to begin, always — to return to home, literally.
WOLE SOYINKAIntolerance 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.
More Wole Soyinka Quotes
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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 rarely use mythology for its own sake because, as a theatre person, the mythological figures are in fact humanity to the ninth degree and Yoruba mythology in particular has fascination of being one of the most humanised mythologies in the world.
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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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A tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he pounces.
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The youth should come together to challenge the status quo. They must not give up.
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As a global citizen, I sometimes feel like denying my identity.
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The media owes the responsibility to constantly tell the public the truth.
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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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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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I have no money to give to you but I have ideas and organizational capacity.
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Some of us – poets are not exactly poets. We live sometimes – beyond the word.
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The hand that dips into the bottom of the pot will eat the biggest snail.
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The writer is the visionary of his people… He anticipates, he warns.
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Be yourself. Ultimately just be yourself.
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