Writers are human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.
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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The writer is the visionary of his people… He anticipates, he warns.
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You accept whoever you are interacting with, directly, or indirectly.
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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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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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It’s the place to begin, always — to return to home, literally.
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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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There is something really horrific for any human being who feels he is being consumed by other people.
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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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Governance can dig itself into a huge hole and not even know it’s in there.
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Sadness is twilight’s kiss on earth.
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A human feast is an indifferent morsel to a god.
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Intolerance has always been with us, you know. The moment you have ideology, we have intolerance, whether it’s the secular ideology or, you know ideocratic ideology, which always brings with it some kind of intolerance.
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Well, some people say I’m pessimistic because I recognize the eternal cycle of evil. All I say is, look at the history of mankind right up to this moment and what do you find?
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You have the entire gamut of human experience captured in the mythology of the Yoruba. This is what makes the Yoruba mythology a natural source material for me in my creative endeavours.
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I have no money to give to you but I have ideas and organizational capacity.
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