I don’t really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident.
WOLE SOYINKAThe hand that dips into the bottom of the pot will eat the biggest snail.
More Wole Soyinka Quotes
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As a global citizen, I sometimes feel like denying my identity.
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Be yourself. Ultimately just be yourself.
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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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Governance can dig itself into a huge hole and not even know it’s in there.
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You accept whoever you are interacting with, directly, or indirectly.
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Romance is the sweetening of the soul With fragrance offered by the stricken heart.
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Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.
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Some of us – poets are not exactly poets. We live sometimes – beyond the word.
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Mythology can be used, and has been used, even to re-state, you know, the very urgent problems of the world.
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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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See, even despite pious statements to the contrary, much of the industrialized world has not yet come to terms with the recognition of the fallacy of what I call the strong man syndrome.
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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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There is only one home to the life of a river-mussel; there is only one home to the life of a tortoise; there is only one shell to the soul of man: there is only one world to the spirit of our race. If that world leaves its course and smashes on boulders of the great void, whose world will give us shelter?
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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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I have one abiding religion-human liberty.
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