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.
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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I know there are writers who get up every morning and sit by their typewriter or word processor or pad of paper and wait to write. I don’t function that way. I go through a long period of gestation before I’m even ready to write.
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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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Be yourself. Ultimately just be yourself.
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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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I am a very curious person; I’ll always ask: is this thing true, is it not true? And I use my own means to investigate and come to my conclusion.
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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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Religion has really spawned some monsters. It always has, historically. Go all the way back to the Inquisition, you know, the Crusades, the Jehad and so on.
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I have no money to give to you but I have ideas and organizational capacity.
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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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Governance can dig itself into a huge hole and not even know it’s in there.
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A human feast is an indifferent morsel to a god.
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For me, a writer is already being the deuce of his mission, his occupation to society.
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You accept whoever you are interacting with, directly, or indirectly.
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I have one abiding religion-human liberty.
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It’s the place to begin, always — to return to home, literally.
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