Sadness is twilight’s kiss on earth.
WOLE SOYINKAEach time I think Ive created time for myself, along comes a throwback to disrupt my private space.
More Wole Soyinka Quotes
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When you are looking for corruption, you should look at the entire stratum of the society, while some forms of corruption are direct, others are indirect.
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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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I said: “A tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he pounces”. In other words: a tiger does not stand in the forest and say: “I am a tiger”. When you pass where the tiger has walked before, you see the skeleton of the duiker, you know that some tigritude has been emanated there.
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Everybody knows that fraternities are a normal culture in all colleges. It exists in all colleges. President Clinton was a member of a fraternity. In fact, anybody who goes to College in the United States is a member of a College fraternity. There is absolutely nothing evil or occultic about fraternity.
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The media owes the responsibility to constantly tell the public the truth.
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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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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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It’s the place to begin, always — to return to home, literally.
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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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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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Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.
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When I say war, I’m not talking about mental war; I’m talking about totally eliminating the obstacles to transformation of our children.
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There’s a lot of insincerity about the actions of our legislators; they create distractions – like this anti-gay law you alluded to – and try to mobilise, to exacerbate people’s emotions. Until the legislators started making laws, people minded, generally, their own business.
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The youth should come together to challenge the status quo. They must not give up.
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We live in a materialist world, and materialism appeals so strongly to humanity, no matter where.
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