I can look violence in the face and either reject or accept it.
WOLE SOYINKAThe media owes the responsibility to constantly tell the public the truth.
More Wole Soyinka Quotes
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The hand that dips into the bottom of the pot will eat the biggest snail.
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But when you’re deprived of it for a lengthy period then you value human companionship. But you have to survive and so you devise all kinds of mental exercises and it’s amazing.
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As a global citizen, I sometimes feel like denying my identity.
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Everybody 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.
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Arts 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.
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Romance is the sweetening of the soul With fragrance offered by the stricken heart.
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I don’t really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident.
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But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That’s all.
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But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That’s why I call it the most social of the various art forms.
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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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You cannot live a normal existence if you haven’t taken care of a problem that affects your life and affects the lives of others, values that you hold which in fact define your very existence.
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Governance can dig itself into a huge hole and not even know it’s in there.
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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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A tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he pounces.
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There is something really horrific for any human being who feels he is being consumed by other people.
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