It’s the place to begin, always — to return to home, literally.
WOLE SOYINKAIf man cannot, what god dare claim perfection?
More Wole Soyinka Quotes
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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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The youth should come together to challenge the status quo. They must not give up.
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I don’t really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident.
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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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A tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he pounces.
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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 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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I rarely use mythology for its own sake because, as a theatre person, the mythological figures are in fact humanity to the ninth degree and Yoruba mythology in particular has fascination of being one of the most humanised mythologies in the world.
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Sadness is twilight’s kiss on earth.
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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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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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I can look violence in the face and either reject or accept it.
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As a global citizen, I sometimes feel like denying my identity.
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The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.
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