A human feast is an indifferent morsel to a god.
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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The man dies in all those that keep silent.
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We do not ask the mountain’s aid to crack a walnut.
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Culture is a matrix of infinite possibilities and choices. From within the same culture matrix we can extract arguments and strategies for the degradation and ennoblement of our species, for its enslavement or liberation, for the suppression of its productive potential or its enhancement.
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Some of us – poets are not exactly poets. We live sometimes – beyond the word.
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I consider the process of gestation just as important as when you’re actually sitting down putting words to the paper.
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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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I don’t really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident.
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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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Alfred Nobel regretted that his invention, dynamite, was converted to degrading use, hence his creation of the Nobel Prize, as the humanist counter to the destructive power of his genius.
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And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others.
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The media must be used effectively to reach the masses. You have to find a new language in which to address the people and demonstrate what is possible.
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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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Governance can dig itself into a huge hole and not even know it’s in there.
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Very conscious of the fact that an effort was being made to destroy my mind, because I was deprived of books, deprived of any means of writing, deprived of human companionship. You never know how much you need it until you’re deprived of it.
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Sadness is twilight’s kiss on earth.
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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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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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There is only one home to the life of a river-mussel; there is only one home to the life of a tortoise; there is only one shell to the soul of man: there is only one world to the spirit of our race. If that world leaves its course and smashes on boulders of the great void, whose world will give us shelter?
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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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As a global citizen, I sometimes feel like denying my identity.
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Be yourself. Ultimately just be yourself.
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Don’t take shadows too seriously. Reality is your only safety. Continue to reject illusion.
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Each time I think Ive created time for myself, along comes a throwback to disrupt my private space.
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I have no money to give to you but I have ideas and organizational capacity.
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Mythology can be used, and has been used, even to re-state, you know, the very urgent problems of the world.
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Romance is the sweetening of the soul With fragrance offered by the stricken heart.
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