I can look violence in the face and either reject or accept it.
WOLE SOYINKAMythology can be used, and has been used, even to re-state, you know, the very urgent problems of the world.
More Wole Soyinka Quotes
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But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That’s all.
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Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.
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The hand that dips into the bottom of the pot will eat the biggest snail.
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It’s the place to begin, always — to return to home, literally.
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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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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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History teaches us to beware of the excitation of the liberated and the injustices that often accompany their righteous thirst for justice.
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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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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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Romance is the sweetening of the soul With fragrance offered by the stricken heart.
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Religion has really spawned some monsters. It always has, historically. Go all the way back to the Inquisition, you know, the Crusades, the Jehad and so on.
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To achieve any change in the minds of the youth, there must be reorientation in terms of materialistic tendencies, corruption and crime generally.
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The media owes the responsibility to constantly tell the public the truth.
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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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If man cannot, what god dare claim perfection?
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