The media must be used effectively to reach the masses. You have to find a new language in which to address the people and demonstrate what is possible.
WOLE SOYINKAThe hand that dips into the bottom of the pot will eat the biggest snail.
More Wole Soyinka Quotes
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I believe that each writer must decide in which language he or she is most comfortable.
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Colonialism bred an innate arrogance, but when you undertake that sort of imperial adventure, that arrogance gives way to a feeling of accommodativeness. You take pride in your openness.
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It is the human potentials that interest me. I travel and everywhere I go I am amazed at the presence of Nigerians. The intelligence, integrity, productivity, initiative.
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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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You accept whoever you are interacting with, directly, or indirectly.
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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 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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I don’t really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident.
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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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If man cannot, what god dare claim perfection?
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Be yourself. Ultimately just be yourself.
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Romance is the sweetening of the soul With fragrance offered by the stricken heart.
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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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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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