Governance can dig itself into a huge hole and not even know it’s in there.
WOLE SOYINKARomance is the sweetening of the soul With fragrance offered by the stricken heart.
More Wole Soyinka Quotes
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The media owes the responsibility to constantly tell the public the truth.
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For me, justice is the prime condition of humanity.
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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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The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.
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I rarely use mythology for its own sake because, as a theatre person, the mythological figures are in fact humanity to the ninth degree and Yoruba mythology in particular has fascination of being one of the most humanised mythologies in the world.
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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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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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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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Be yourself. Ultimately just be yourself.
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We do not ask the mountain’s aid to crack a walnut.
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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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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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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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A human feast is an indifferent morsel to a god.
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Don’t take shadows too seriously. Reality is your only safety. Continue to reject illusion.
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