A tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he pounces.
WOLE SOYINKARomance is the sweetening of the soul With fragrance offered by the stricken heart.
More Wole Soyinka Quotes
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A human feast is an indifferent morsel to a god.
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Writers are human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.
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Colonialism bred an innate arrogance, but when you undertake that sort of imperial adventure, that arrogance gives way to a feeling of accommodativeness. You take pride in your openness.
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My father used to tell me stories before I fell asleep. When the children would gather, at a certain point, I had a tendency to make up my own elementary variations on stories I had heard, or to invent totally new ones.
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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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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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Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.
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But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That’s all.
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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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As a global citizen, I sometimes feel like denying my identity.
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I can look violence in the face and either reject or accept it.
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I am a very curious person; I’ll always ask: is this thing true, is it not true? And I use my own means to investigate and come to my conclusion.
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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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Sadness is twilight’s kiss on earth.
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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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