. . . as far as the regime is concerned, well, the play is sheer terror for them. Because they feel, How dare – how dare anybody lift his or her voice in criticism against us? We have the guns. Their level of paranoia and power-drunkenness is unbelievable.
WOLE SOYINKAI don’t really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident.
More Wole Soyinka Quotes
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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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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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What I teach is literary criticism and comparative literature and so on and that’s my function, but from time to time it’s possible for me actually to help a writer. I read something and something strikes me then, I feel I can talk to that writer about it.
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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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Romance is the sweetening of the soul With fragrance offered by the stricken heart.
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A tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he pounces.
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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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History teaches us to beware of the excitation of the liberated and the injustices that often accompany their righteous thirst for justice.
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To achieve any change in the minds of the youth, there must be reorientation in terms of materialistic tendencies, corruption and crime generally.
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The hand that dips into the bottom of the pot will eat the biggest snail.
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I don’t really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident.
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We do not ask the mountain’s aid to crack a walnut.
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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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The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.
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The youth should come together to challenge the status quo. They must not give up.
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