The writer is the visionary of his people… He anticipates, he warns.
WOLE SOYINKAAnd I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others.
More Wole Soyinka Quotes
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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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I rarely use mythology for its own sake because, as a theatre person, the mythological figures are in fact humanity to the ninth degree and Yoruba mythology in particular has fascination of being one of the most humanised mythologies in the world.
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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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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 don’t really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident.
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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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Some of us – poets are not exactly poets. We live sometimes – beyond the word.
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But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That’s all.
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Sadness is twilight’s kiss on earth.
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Writers are human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.
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I have one abiding religion-human liberty.
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I am convinced that Nigeria would have been a more highly developed country without the oil. I wished we’d never smelled the fumes of petroleum.
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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 cannot accept the definition of collective good as articulated by a privileged minority in society, especially when that minority is in power.
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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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