We do not ask the mountain’s aid to crack a walnut.
WOLE SOYINKAThe man dies in all those that keep silent.
More Wole Soyinka Quotes
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I don’t really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident.
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Some of us – poets are not exactly poets. We live sometimes – beyond the word.
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I have one abiding religion-human liberty.
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But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That’s all.
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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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Intolerance has become, I think, the reigning ideology of the world today, the intolerance versus intolerance and it’s taken on lethal proportions.
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The media owes the responsibility to constantly tell the public the truth.
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My understanding of the creative process is simply that all cultures and all concerns meet at a certain point, the human point in which everything is related to one another. That has been my creative experience.
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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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Don’t take shadows too seriously. Reality is your only safety. Continue to reject illusion.
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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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For me, a writer is already being the deuce of his mission, his occupation to society.
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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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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 hand that dips into the bottom of the pot will eat the biggest snail.
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