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.
WOLE SOYINKARomance is the sweetening of the soul With fragrance offered by the stricken heart.
More Wole Soyinka Quotes
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For me, a writer is already being the deuce of his mission, his occupation to society.
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The youth should come together to challenge the status quo. They must not give up.
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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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Don’t take shadows too seriously. Reality is your only safety. Continue to reject illusion.
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Everybody knows that fraternities are a normal culture in all colleges. It exists in all colleges. President Clinton was a member of a fraternity. In fact, anybody who goes to College in the United States is a member of a College fraternity. There is absolutely nothing evil or occultic about fraternity.
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It’s the place to begin, always — to return to home, literally.
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For me, justice is the prime condition of humanity.
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I am convinced that Nigeria would have been a more highly developed country without the oil. I wished we’d never smelled the fumes of petroleum.
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Romance is the sweetening of the soul With fragrance offered by the stricken heart.
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The man dies in all those that keep silent.
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Some of us – poets are not exactly poets. We live sometimes – beyond the word.
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A tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he pounces.
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Mythology can be used, and has been used, even to re-state, you know, the very urgent problems of the world.
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The media owes the responsibility to constantly tell the public the truth.
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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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