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.
WOLE SOYINKAIt is the human potentials that interest me. I travel and everywhere I go I am amazed at the presence of Nigerians. The intelligence, integrity, productivity, initiative.
More Wole Soyinka Quotes
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Intolerance 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.
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I don’t really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident.
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The writer is the visionary of his people… He anticipates, he warns.
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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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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 youth should come together to challenge the status quo. They must not give up.
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It’s the place to begin, always — to return to home, literally.
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A tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he pounces.
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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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A human feast is an indifferent morsel to a god.
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Some of us – poets are not exactly poets. We live sometimes – beyond the word.
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You have the entire gamut of human experience captured in the mythology of the Yoruba. This is what makes the Yoruba mythology a natural source material for me in my creative endeavours.
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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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The media owes the responsibility to constantly tell the public the truth.
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But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That’s all.
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