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For me, a writer is already being the deuce of his mission, his occupation to society.

Wole Soyinka

It’s the place to begin, always — to return to home, literally.
WOLE SOYINKA

Always Begin Home Literally Place Return
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.
WOLE SOYINKA

Certain Concern Creative Culture Point Process Simply Understanding
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.
WOLE SOYINKA

Absolute Believe Cause Certainty Confidence Feel Must One Self Think Through
The hand that dips into the bottom of the pot will eat the biggest snail.
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Biggest Bottom Dip Eat Hard Pot Small
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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Asleep Certain Children Father Fell Gather Point Story Use
For me, justice is the prime condition of humanity.
WOLE SOYINKA

Condition For Humanity Justice Prime
I said: “A tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he pounces”. In other words: a tiger does not stand in the forest and say: “I am a tiger”. When you pass where the tiger has walked before, you see the skeleton of the duiker, you know that some tigritude has been emanated there.
WOLE SOYINKA

Other Prince Proclaim Say Stand Tiger Tignitude Word
I don’t know any other way to live but to wake up everyday armed with my convictions, not yielding them to the threat of danger and to the power and force of people who might despise me.
WOLE SOYINKA

Arm Conviction Danger Day Every Know Other Power Threat Wake Way Yield
Looking at faces of people, one gets the feeling there’s a lot of work to be done.
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Done Face Feel Get Look Lot People Work
I believe that each writer must decide in which language he or she is most comfortable.
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Believe Comfortable Each Language Most Must Decide Writer
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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Choice Culture Matrix Poosisblity
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.
WOLE SOYINKA

Adventure Arrogance Colonialism Feeling Imperial Innate Sort Understand Way
Romance is the sweetening of the soul With fragrance offered by the stricken heart.
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Fragrance Heart Offer Romance Soul Sticken Sweetening
I have one abiding religion-human liberty.
WOLE SOYINKA

Abide Body Have Human One Religion
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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All Companionship Deprive Devise Human Kind Length Period Survive
The writer is the visionary of his people… He anticipates, he warns.
WOLE SOYINKA

Anticipate People Visionary Warm Water

For me, a writer is already being the deuce of his mission, his occupation to society.

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