The man dies in all those that keep silent.
WOLE SOYINKARomance is the sweetening of the soul With fragrance offered by the stricken heart.
More Wole Soyinka Quotes
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We do not ask the mountain’s aid to crack a walnut.
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For me, justice is the prime condition of humanity.
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There’s a lot of insincerity about the actions of our legislators; they create distractions – like this anti-gay law you alluded to – and try to mobilise, to exacerbate people’s emotions. Until the legislators started making laws, people minded, generally, their own business.
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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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Don’t take shadows too seriously. Reality is your only safety. Continue to reject illusion.
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Be yourself. Ultimately just be yourself.
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Looking at faces of people, one gets the feeling there’s a lot of work to be done.
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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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I have one abiding religion-human liberty.
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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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For me, a writer is already being the deuce of his mission, his occupation to society.
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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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The youth should come together to challenge the status quo. They must not give up.
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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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Sadness is twilight’s kiss on earth.
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