Romance is the sweetening of the soul With fragrance offered by the stricken heart.
WOLE SOYINKABut 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.
More Wole Soyinka Quotes
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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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A tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he pounces.
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The hand that dips into the bottom of the pot will eat the biggest snail.
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No man beholds his mother’s womb Yet who denies it’s there? Coiled To the navel of the world is that Endless cord that links us all To the great Origin. If I lose my way. The trailing cord will bring me to the roots.
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You have the entire gamut of human experience captured in the mythology of the Yoruba. This is what makes the Yoruba mythology a natural source material for me in my creative endeavours.
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As a global citizen, I sometimes feel like denying my identity.
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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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It’s the place to begin, always — to return to home, literally.
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You accept whoever you are interacting with, directly, or indirectly.
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My father used to tell me stories before I fell asleep. When the children would gather, at a certain point, I had a tendency to make up my own elementary variations on stories I had heard, or to invent totally new ones.
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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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The youth should come together to challenge the status quo. They must not give up.
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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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Governance can dig itself into a huge hole and not even know it’s in there.
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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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