When a leader encourages the culture of impunity, the society is lost and it makes the work harder for the rest of us.
WOLE SOYINKARomance is the sweetening of the soul With fragrance offered by the stricken heart.
More Wole Soyinka Quotes
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When you are looking for corruption, you should look at the entire stratum of the society, while some forms of corruption are direct, others are indirect.
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I have one abiding religion-human liberty.
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You have the entire gamut of human experience captured in the mythology of the Yoruba. This is what makes the Yoruba mythology a natural source material for me in my creative endeavours.
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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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And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others.
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A human feast is an indifferent morsel to a god.
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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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The writer is the visionary of his people… He anticipates, he warns.
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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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Well, some people say I’m pessimistic because I recognize the eternal cycle of evil. All I say is, look at the history of mankind right up to this moment and what do you find?
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Writers are human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.
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It’s the place to begin, always — to return to home, literally.
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I believe that each writer must decide in which language he or she is most comfortable.
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Arts and the Sciences are a natural symbiosis. They stem from the same human existential impulse – exploration. Exploration of what lies beneath the surface, and re-confuguration of elements of what we call reality.
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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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