But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That’s all.
WOLE SOYINKAA human feast is an indifferent morsel to a god.
More Wole Soyinka Quotes
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The youth should come together to challenge the status quo. They must not give up.
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Everybody knows that fraternities are a normal culture in all colleges. It exists in all colleges. President Clinton was a member of a fraternity. In fact, anybody who goes to College in the United States is a member of a College fraternity. There is absolutely nothing evil or occultic about fraternity.
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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 tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he pounces.
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Be yourself. Ultimately just be yourself.
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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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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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I never hesitated, as a student, in embracing the necessity of violence. In South Africa, I didn’t just accept it; I looked forward to it as a mission.
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Writers are human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.
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Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.
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I am a very curious person; I’ll always ask: is this thing true, is it not true? And I use my own means to investigate and come to my conclusion.
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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.
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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 consider the process of gestation just as important as when you’re actually sitting down putting words to the paper.
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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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