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 SOYINKAI have no money to give to you but I have ideas and organizational capacity.
More Wole Soyinka Quotes
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A tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he pounces.
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And gradually they’re beginning to recognize the fact that there’s nothing more secure than a democratic, accountable, and participatory form of government. But it’s sunk in only theoretically, it has not yet sunk in completely in practical terms.
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A human feast is an indifferent morsel to a god.
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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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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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Don’t take shadows too seriously. Reality is your only safety. Continue to reject illusion.
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I believe that each writer must decide in which language he or she is most comfortable.
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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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Each time I think Ive created time for myself, along comes a throwback to disrupt my private space.
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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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You accept whoever you are interacting with, directly, or indirectly.
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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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Romance is the sweetening of the soul With fragrance offered by the stricken heart.
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For me, justice is the prime condition of humanity.
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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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