But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That’s all.
WOLE SOYINKASome of us – poets are not exactly poets. We live sometimes – beyond the word.
More Wole Soyinka Quotes
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A tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he pounces.
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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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As a global citizen, I sometimes feel like denying my identity.
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Sadness is twilight’s kiss on earth.
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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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Some of us – poets are not exactly poets. We live sometimes – beyond the word.
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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 consider the process of gestation just as important as when you’re actually sitting down putting words to the paper.
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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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Looking at faces of people, one gets the feeling there’s a lot of work to be done.
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I believe that each writer must decide in which language he or she is most comfortable.
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I know there are writers who get up every morning and sit by their typewriter or word processor or pad of paper and wait to write. I don’t function that way. I go through a long period of gestation before I’m even ready to write.
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History teaches us to beware of the excitation of the liberated and the injustices that often accompany their righteous thirst for justice.
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Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.
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