The writer is the visionary of his people… He anticipates, he warns.
WOLE SOYINKAWe do not ask the mountain’s aid to crack a walnut.
More Wole Soyinka Quotes
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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.
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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 have no money to give to you but I have ideas and organizational capacity.
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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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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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Governance can dig itself into a huge hole and not even know it’s in there.
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For me, justice is the prime condition of humanity.
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You accept whoever you are interacting with, directly, or indirectly.
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See, even despite pious statements to the contrary, much of the industrialized world has not yet come to terms with the recognition of the fallacy of what I call the strong man syndrome.
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Romance is the sweetening of the soul With fragrance offered by the stricken heart.
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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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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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The hand that dips into the bottom of the pot will eat the biggest snail.
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I never hesitated, as a student, in embracing the necessity of violence. In South Africa, I didn’t just accept it; I looked forward to it as a mission.
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Mythology can be used, and has been used, even to re-state, you know, the very urgent problems of the world.
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