Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.
WOLE SOYINKAI am a very curious person; I’ll always ask: is this thing true, is it not true? And I use my own means to investigate and come to my conclusion.
More Wole Soyinka Quotes
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Writers are human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.
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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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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 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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Religion has really spawned some monsters. It always has, historically. Go all the way back to the Inquisition, you know, the Crusades, the Jehad and so on.
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It is the human potentials that interest me. I travel and everywhere I go I am amazed at the presence of Nigerians. The intelligence, integrity, productivity, initiative.
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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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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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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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For me, justice is the prime condition of humanity.
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I can look violence in the face and either reject or accept it.
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I have no money to give to you but I have ideas and organizational capacity.
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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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You have the entire gamut of human experience captured in the mythology of the Yoruba. This is what makes the Yoruba mythology a natural source material for me in my creative endeavours.
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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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