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.
WOLE SOYINKAIf man cannot, what god dare claim perfection?
More Wole Soyinka Quotes
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The man dies in all those that keep silent.
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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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Be yourself. Ultimately just be yourself.
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Very conscious of the fact that an effort was being made to destroy my mind, because I was deprived of books, deprived of any means of writing, deprived of human companionship. You never know how much you need it until you’re deprived of it.
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The media must be used effectively to reach the masses. You have to find a new language in which to address the people and demonstrate what is possible.
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For me, a writer is already being the deuce of his mission, his occupation to society.
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Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.
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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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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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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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No man beholds his mother’s womb Yet who denies it’s there? Coiled To the navel of the world is that Endless cord that links us all To the great Origin. If I lose my way. The trailing cord will bring me to the roots.
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I believe that each writer must decide in which language he or she is most comfortable.
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Writers are human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.
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I don’t really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident.
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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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