Governance can dig itself into a huge hole and not even know it’s in there.
WOLE SOYINKAI 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.
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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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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Romance is the sweetening of the soul With fragrance offered by the stricken heart.
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It’s the place to begin, always — to return to home, literally.
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Writers are human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.
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Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.
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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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The writer is the visionary of his people… He anticipates, he warns.
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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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Looking at faces of people, one gets the feeling there’s a lot of work to be done.
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I know there are writers who get up every morning and sit by their typewriter or word processor or pad of paper and wait to write. I don’t function that way. I go through a long period of gestation before I’m even ready to write.
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Be yourself. Ultimately just be yourself.
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Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.
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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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But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That’s all.
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