I can look violence in the face and either reject or accept it.
WOLE SOYINKAI can look violence in the face and either reject or accept it.
WOLE SOYINKAIt’s the place to begin, always — to return to home, literally.
WOLE SOYINKAI believe that each writer must decide in which language he or she is most comfortable.
WOLE SOYINKAArts and the Sciences are a natural symbiosis. They stem from the same human existential impulse – exploration. Exploration of what lies beneath the surface, and re-confuguration of elements of what we call reality.
WOLE SOYINKAI think that feeling that if one believed absolutely in any cause, then one must have the confidence, the self-certainty, to go through with that particular course of action.
WOLE SOYINKAThe media owes the responsibility to constantly tell the public the truth.
WOLE SOYINKAThe youth should come together to challenge the status quo. They must not give up.
WOLE SOYINKAWriters are human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.
WOLE SOYINKAI consider the process of gestation just as important as when you’re actually sitting down putting words to the paper.
WOLE SOYINKAWell, 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?
WOLE SOYINKAA human feast is an indifferent morsel to a god.
WOLE SOYINKAThere is something really horrific for any human being who feels he is being consumed by other people.
WOLE SOYINKAWe do not ask the mountain’s aid to crack a walnut.
WOLE SOYINKAWe live in a materialist world, and materialism appeals so strongly to humanity, no matter where.
WOLE SOYINKAIntolerance 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.
WOLE SOYINKAI 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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