I am convinced that Nigeria would have been a more highly developed country without the oil. I wished we’d never smelled the fumes of petroleum.
WOLE SOYINKAI 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.
More Wole Soyinka Quotes
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Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.
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I cannot accept the definition of collective good as articulated by a privileged minority in society, especially when that minority is in power.
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I have no money to give to you but I have ideas and organizational capacity.
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As a global citizen, I sometimes feel like denying my identity.
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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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I don’t know any other way to live but to wake up everyday armed with my convictions, not yielding them to the threat of danger and to the power and force of people who might despise me.
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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 human feast is an indifferent morsel to a god.
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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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The man dies in all those that keep silent.
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Sadness is twilight’s kiss on earth.
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If man cannot, what god dare claim perfection?
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The hand that dips into the bottom of the pot will eat the biggest snail.
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Some of us – poets are not exactly poets. We live sometimes – beyond the word.
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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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