Romance is the sweetening of the soul With fragrance offered by the stricken heart.
WOLE SOYINKAMythology can be used, and has been used, even to re-state, you know, the very urgent problems of the world.
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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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I began writing early – very, very early… I was already writing short stories for the radio and selling poems to poetry and art festivals; I was involved in school plays; I wrote essays, so there was no definite moment when I said, ‘Now I’m a writer.’ I’ve always been a writer.
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A tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he pounces.
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The youth should come together to challenge the status quo. They must not give up.
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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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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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We live in a materialist world, and materialism appeals so strongly to humanity, no matter where.
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Some of us – poets are not exactly poets. We live sometimes – beyond the word.
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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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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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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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Intolerance has become, I think, the reigning ideology of the world today, the intolerance versus intolerance and it’s taken on lethal proportions.
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The hand that dips into the bottom of the pot will eat the biggest snail.
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Governance can dig itself into a huge hole and not even know it’s in there.
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