When I say war, I’m not talking about mental war; I’m talking about totally eliminating the obstacles to transformation of our children.
WOLE SOYINKAA human feast is an indifferent morsel to a god.
More Wole Soyinka Quotes
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I cannot accept the definition of collective good as articulated by a privileged minority in society, especially when that minority is in power.
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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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It’s the place to begin, always — to return to home, literally.
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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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Be yourself. Ultimately just be yourself.
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We live in a materialist world, and materialism appeals so strongly to humanity, no matter where.
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Governance can dig itself into a huge hole and not even know it’s in there.
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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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Sadness is twilight’s kiss on earth.
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As a global citizen, I sometimes feel like denying my identity.
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Each time I think Ive created time for myself, along comes a throwback to disrupt my private space.
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Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.
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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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But when you’re deprived of it for a lengthy period then you value human companionship. But you have to survive and so you devise all kinds of mental exercises and it’s amazing.
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I know there are writers who get up every morning and sit by their typewriter or word processor or pad of paper and wait to write. I don’t function that way. I go through a long period of gestation before I’m even ready to write.
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