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.
WOLE SOYINKAA human feast is an indifferent morsel to a god.
More Wole Soyinka Quotes
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Let’s say there are prospects for a new Nigeria, but I don’t think we have a new Nigeria yet.
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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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I don’t know any other way to live but to wake up everyday armed with my convictions, not yielding them to the threat of danger and to the power and force of people who might despise me.
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The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.
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I said: “A tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he pounces”. In other words: a tiger does not stand in the forest and say: “I am a tiger”. When you pass where the tiger has walked before, you see the skeleton of the duiker, you know that some tigritude has been emanated there.
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As a global citizen, I sometimes feel like denying my identity.
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I don’t really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident.
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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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We live in a materialist world, and materialism appeals so strongly to humanity, no matter where.
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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 man dies in all those that keep silent.
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Well, some people say I’m pessimistic because I recognize the eternal cycle of evil. All I say is, look at the history of mankind right up to this moment and what do you find?
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The youth should come together to challenge the status quo. They must not give up.
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But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That’s why I call it the most social of the various art forms.
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The writer is the visionary of his people… He anticipates, he warns.
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