I’m not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning, put a piece of paper in their typewriter machine and start writing. That I’ve never understood.
WOLE SOYINKAWhen I say war, I’m not talking about mental war; I’m talking about totally eliminating the obstacles to transformation of our children.
More Wole Soyinka Quotes
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If man cannot, what god dare claim perfection?
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The media owes the responsibility to constantly tell the public the truth.
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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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Some of us – poets are not exactly poets. We live sometimes – beyond the word.
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I believe that each writer must decide in which language he or she is most comfortable.
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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.
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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.
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For me, justice is the prime condition of humanity.
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The man dies in all those that keep silent.
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The youth should come together to challenge the status quo. They must not give up.
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See, even despite pious statements to the contrary, much of the industrialized world has not yet come to terms with the recognition of the fallacy of what I call the strong man syndrome.
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We live in a materialist world, and materialism appeals so strongly to humanity, no matter where.
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I can look violence in the face and either reject or accept it.
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I think that feeling that if one believed absolutely in any cause, then one must have the confidence, the self-certainty, to go through with that particular course of action.
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Writers are human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.
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