It’s the place to begin, always — to return to home, literally.
WOLE SOYINKAWe do not ask the mountain’s aid to crack a walnut.
More Wole Soyinka Quotes
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And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others.
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The youth should come together to challenge the status quo. They must not give up.
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Don’t take shadows too seriously. Reality is your only safety. Continue to reject illusion.
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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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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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For me, a writer is already being the deuce of his mission, his occupation to society.
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Culture is a matrix of infinite possibilities and choices. From within the same culture matrix we can extract arguments and strategies for the degradation and ennoblement of our species, for its enslavement or liberation, for the suppression of its productive potential or its enhancement.
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The man dies in all those that keep silent.
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But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That’s all.
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Some of us – poets are not exactly poets. We live sometimes – beyond the word.
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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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As a global citizen, I sometimes feel like denying my identity.
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Writers are human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.
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My father used to tell me stories before I fell asleep. When the children would gather, at a certain point, I had a tendency to make up my own elementary variations on stories I had heard, or to invent totally new ones.
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Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom.
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