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.
WOLE SOYINKASome of us – poets are not exactly poets. We live sometimes – beyond the word.
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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My definition of slavery is the deprivation of human volition, any form of relationship between two peoples which is based on the deprivation of volition of one side.
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The youth should come together to challenge the status quo. They must not give up.
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Let’s say there are prospects for a new Nigeria, but I don’t think we have a new Nigeria yet.
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I have one abiding religion-human liberty.
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Each time I think Ive created time for myself, along comes a throwback to disrupt my private space.
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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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Be yourself. Ultimately just be yourself.
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Alfred Nobel regretted that his invention, dynamite, was converted to degrading use, hence his creation of the Nobel Prize, as the humanist counter to the destructive power of his genius.
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We do not ask the mountain’s aid to crack a walnut.
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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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A tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he pounces.
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I have no money to give to you but I have ideas and organizational capacity.
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It’s the place to begin, always — to return to home, literally.
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I think that feeling that if one believed absolutely in any cause, then one must have the confidence, the self-certainty, to go through with that particular course of action.
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