Intolerance 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.
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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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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. . . as far as the regime is concerned, well, the play is sheer terror for them. Because they feel, How dare – how dare anybody lift his or her voice in criticism against us? We have the guns. Their level of paranoia and power-drunkenness is unbelievable.
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The youth should come together to challenge the status quo. They must not give up.
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The writer is the visionary of his people… He anticipates, he warns.
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Sadness is twilight’s kiss on earth.
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For me, a writer is already being the deuce of his mission, his occupation to society.
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What I teach is literary criticism and comparative literature and so on and that’s my function, but from time to time it’s possible for me actually to help a writer. I read something and something strikes me then, I feel I can talk to that writer about it.
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The media owes the responsibility to constantly tell the public the truth.
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Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.
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We live in a materialist world, and materialism appeals so strongly to humanity, no matter where.
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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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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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Some of us – poets are not exactly poets. We live sometimes – beyond the word.
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You accept whoever you are interacting with, directly, or indirectly.
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