I consider the process of gestation just as important as when you’re actually sitting down putting words to the paper.
WOLE SOYINKACulture 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.
More Wole Soyinka Quotes
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If man cannot, what god dare claim perfection?
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I never hesitated, as a student, in embracing the necessity of violence. In South Africa, I didn’t just accept it; I looked forward to it as a mission.
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The hand that dips into the bottom of the pot will eat the biggest snail.
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I 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.
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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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The media owes the responsibility to constantly tell the public the truth.
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The youth should come together to challenge the status quo. They must not give up.
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The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.
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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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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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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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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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Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.
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My father used to tell me stories before I fell asleep. When the children would gather, at a certain point, I had a tendency to make up my own elementary variations on stories I had heard, or to invent totally new ones.
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We do not ask the mountain’s aid to crack a walnut.
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