Be yourself. Ultimately just be yourself.
WOLE SOYINKAColonialism 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.
More Wole Soyinka Quotes
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The youth should come together to challenge the status quo. They must not give up.
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We do not ask the mountain’s aid to crack a walnut.
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I don’t really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident.
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It’s the place to begin, always — to return to home, literally.
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The writer is the visionary of his people… He anticipates, he warns.
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My understanding of the creative process is simply that all cultures and all concerns meet at a certain point, the human point in which everything is related to one another. That has been my creative experience.
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Intolerance has become, I think, the reigning ideology of the world today, the intolerance versus intolerance and it’s taken on lethal proportions.
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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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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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We all have our individual artistic temperaments as well as partisanships in creative directions. And we have strong opinions on the merits of the products of our occupation.
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I believe that each writer must decide in which language he or she is most comfortable.
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We live in a materialist world, and materialism appeals so strongly to humanity, no matter where.
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For me, a writer is already being the deuce of his mission, his occupation to society.
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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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Writers are human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.
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