Let’s say there are prospects for a new Nigeria, but I don’t think we have a new Nigeria yet.
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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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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Some of us – poets are not exactly poets. We live sometimes – beyond the word.
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Writers are human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.
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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 definition of slavery is the deprivation of human volition, any form of relationship between two peoples which is based on the deprivation of volition of one side.
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Romance is the sweetening of the soul With fragrance offered by the stricken heart.
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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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There is something really horrific for any human being who feels he is being consumed by other people.
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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.
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I believe that each writer must decide in which language he or she is most comfortable.
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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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A human feast is an indifferent morsel to a god.
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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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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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The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.
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