For me, a writer is already being the deuce of his mission, his occupation to society.
WOLE SOYINKAI have no money to give to you but I have ideas and organizational capacity.
More Wole Soyinka Quotes
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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 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.
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Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.
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I can look violence in the face and either reject or accept it.
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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 have one abiding religion-human liberty.
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You accept whoever you are interacting with, directly, or indirectly.
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If man cannot, what god dare claim perfection?
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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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We do not ask the mountain’s aid to crack a walnut.
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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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Each time I think Ive created time for myself, along comes a throwback to disrupt my private space.
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It’s the place to begin, always — to return to home, literally.
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The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.
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For me, justice is the prime condition of humanity.
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