Don’t take shadows too seriously. Reality is your only safety. Continue to reject illusion.
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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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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When a leader encourages the culture of impunity, the society is lost and it makes the work harder for the rest of us.
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A tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he pounces.
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A human feast is an indifferent morsel to a god.
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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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The media owes the responsibility to constantly tell the public the truth.
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I have one abiding religion-human liberty.
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But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That’s all.
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The man dies in all those that keep silent.
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You cannot live a normal existence if you haven’t taken care of a problem that affects your life and affects the lives of others, values that you hold which in fact define your very existence.
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We live in a materialist world, and materialism appeals so strongly to humanity, no matter where.
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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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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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I believe that each writer must decide in which language he or she is most comfortable.
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