I 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?
More Wole Soyinka Quotes
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The writer is the visionary of his people… He anticipates, he warns.
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We live in a materialist world, and materialism appeals so strongly to humanity, no matter where.
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The man dies in all those that keep silent.
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Governance can dig itself into a huge hole and not even know it’s in there.
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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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The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.
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You accept whoever you are interacting with, directly, or indirectly.
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Looking at faces of people, one gets the feeling there’s a lot of work to be done.
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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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Very conscious of the fact that an effort was being made to destroy my mind, because I was deprived of books, deprived of any means of writing, deprived of human companionship. You never know how much you need it until you’re deprived of it.
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It 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.
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A tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he pounces.
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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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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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Don’t take shadows too seriously. Reality is your only safety. Continue to reject illusion.
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