The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.
WOLE SOYINKARomance is the sweetening of the soul With fragrance offered by the stricken heart.
More Wole Soyinka Quotes
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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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To achieve any change in the minds of the youth, there must be reorientation in terms of materialistic tendencies, corruption and crime generally.
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A tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he pounces.
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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.
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History teaches us to beware of the excitation of the liberated and the injustices that often accompany their righteous thirst for justice.
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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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I don’t really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident.
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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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A human feast is an indifferent morsel to a god.
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I believe that each writer must decide in which language he or she is most comfortable.
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I know there are writers who get up every morning and sit by their typewriter or word processor or pad of paper and wait to write. I don’t function that way. I go through a long period of gestation before I’m even ready to write.
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Each time I think Ive created time for myself, along comes a throwback to disrupt my private space.
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Some of us – poets are not exactly poets. We live sometimes – beyond the word.
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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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Be yourself. Ultimately just be yourself.
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