The media owes the responsibility to constantly tell the public the truth.
WOLE SOYINKAThe media owes the responsibility to constantly tell the public the truth.
WOLE SOYINKAThe writer is the visionary of his people… He anticipates, he warns.
WOLE SOYINKAThe man dies in all those that keep silent.
WOLE SOYINKAReligion 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.
WOLE SOYINKAEverybody knows that fraternities are a normal culture in all colleges. It exists in all colleges. President Clinton was a member of a fraternity. In fact, anybody who goes to College in the United States is a member of a College fraternity. There is absolutely nothing evil or occultic about fraternity.
WOLE SOYINKAI consider the process of gestation just as important as when you’re actually sitting down putting words to the paper.
WOLE SOYINKAThere is only one home to the life of a river-mussel; there is only one home to the life of a tortoise; there is only one shell to the soul of man: there is only one world to the spirit of our race. If that world leaves its course and smashes on boulders of the great void, whose world will give us shelter?
WOLE SOYINKAWriters are human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.
WOLE SOYINKAGovernance can dig itself into a huge hole and not even know it’s in there.
WOLE SOYINKAI 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.
WOLE SOYINKAWhen you are looking for corruption, you should look at the entire stratum of the society, while some forms of corruption are direct, others are indirect.
WOLE SOYINKAI have no money to give to you but I have ideas and organizational capacity.
WOLE SOYINKAArts and the Sciences are a natural symbiosis. They stem from the same human existential impulse – exploration. Exploration of what lies beneath the surface, and re-confuguration of elements of what we call reality.
WOLE SOYINKAFor me, a writer is already being the deuce of his mission, his occupation to society.
WOLE SOYINKAI said: “A tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he pounces”. In other words: a tiger does not stand in the forest and say: “I am a tiger”. When you pass where the tiger has walked before, you see the skeleton of the duiker, you know that some tigritude has been emanated there.
WOLE SOYINKAAs a global citizen, I sometimes feel like denying my identity.
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