I consider the process of gestation just as important as when you’re actually sitting down putting words to the paper.
WOLE SOYINKAThe 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.
More Wole Soyinka Quotes
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The man dies in all those that keep silent.
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If man cannot, what god dare claim perfection?
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Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.
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There is only one home to the life of a river-mussel; there is only one home to the life of a tortoise; there is only one shell to the soul of man: there is only one world to the spirit of our race. If that world leaves its course and smashes on boulders of the great void, whose world will give us shelter?
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The media owes the responsibility to constantly tell the public the truth.
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I cannot accept the definition of collective good as articulated by a privileged minority in society, especially when that minority is in power.
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But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That’s why I call it the most social of the various art forms.
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Romance is the sweetening of the soul With fragrance offered by the stricken heart.
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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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To achieve any change in the minds of the youth, there must be reorientation in terms of materialistic tendencies, corruption and crime generally.
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Writers are human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.
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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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I’m not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning, put a piece of paper in their typewriter machine and start writing. That I’ve never understood.
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Governance can dig itself into a huge hole and not even know it’s in there.
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The writer is the visionary of his people… He anticipates, he warns.
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