If man cannot, what god dare claim perfection?
WOLE SOYINKAI 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.
More Wole Soyinka Quotes
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Romance is the sweetening of the soul With fragrance offered by the stricken heart.
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For me, a writer is already being the deuce of his mission, his occupation to society.
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When a leader encourages the culture of impunity, the society is lost and it makes the work harder for the rest of us.
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For me, justice is the prime condition of humanity.
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Colonialism bred an innate arrogance, but when you undertake that sort of imperial adventure, that arrogance gives way to a feeling of accommodativeness. You take pride in your openness.
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Some of us – poets are not exactly poets. We live sometimes – beyond the word.
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I can look violence in the face and either reject or accept it.
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When 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.
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But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That’s all.
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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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And gradually they’re beginning to recognize the fact that there’s nothing more secure than a democratic, accountable, and participatory form of government. But it’s sunk in only theoretically, it has not yet sunk in completely in practical terms.
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I consider the process of gestation just as important as when you’re actually sitting down putting words to the paper.
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As a global citizen, I sometimes feel like denying my identity.
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The media owes the responsibility to constantly tell the public the truth.
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I 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.
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