When I say war, I’m not talking about mental war; I’m talking about totally eliminating the obstacles to transformation of our children.
WOLE SOYINKAI have one abiding religion-human liberty.
More Wole Soyinka Quotes
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The writer is the visionary of his people… He anticipates, he warns.
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We do not ask the mountain’s aid to crack a walnut.
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I don’t really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident.
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The media owes the responsibility to constantly tell the public the truth.
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Governance can dig itself into a huge hole and not even know it’s in there.
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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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Intolerance has become, I think, the reigning ideology of the world today, the intolerance versus intolerance and it’s taken on lethal proportions.
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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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You accept whoever you are interacting with, directly, or indirectly.
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But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That’s why I call it the most social of the various art forms.
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But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That’s all.
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There is only one home to the life of a river-mussel; there is only one home to the life of a tortoise; there is only one shell to the soul of man: there is only one world to the spirit of our race. If that world leaves its course and smashes on boulders of the great void, whose world will give us shelter?
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There is something really horrific for any human being who feels he is being consumed by other people.
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If man cannot, what god dare claim perfection?
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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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