And gradually they’re beginning to recognize the fact that there’s nothing more secure than a democratic, accountable, and participatory form of government. But it’s sunk in only theoretically, it has not yet sunk in completely in practical terms.
WOLE SOYINKAI can look violence in the face and either reject or accept it.
More Wole Soyinka Quotes
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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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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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Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.
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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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I began writing early – very, very early… I was already writing short stories for the radio and selling poems to poetry and art festivals; I was involved in school plays; I wrote essays, so there was no definite moment when I said, ‘Now I’m a writer.’ I’ve always been a writer.
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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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When a leader encourages the culture of impunity, the society is lost and it makes the work harder for the rest of us.
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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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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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But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That’s all.
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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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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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The man dies in all those that keep silent.
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The writer is the visionary of his people… He anticipates, he warns.
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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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