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.
WOLE SOYINKAPower is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.
More Wole Soyinka Quotes
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I have no money to give to you but I have ideas and organizational capacity.
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The writer is the visionary of his people… He anticipates, he warns.
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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.
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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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Some of us – poets are not exactly poets. We live sometimes – beyond the word.
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My definition of slavery is the deprivation of human volition, any form of relationship between two peoples which is based on the deprivation of volition of one side.
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The youth should come together to challenge the status quo. They must not give up.
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As a global citizen, I sometimes feel like denying my identity.
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The media owes the responsibility to constantly tell the public the truth.
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We live in a materialist world, and materialism appeals so strongly to humanity, no matter where.
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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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But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That’s all.
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The man dies in all those that keep silent.
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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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When you are looking for corruption, you should look at the entire stratum of the society, while some forms of corruption are direct, others are indirect.
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