I believe that each writer must decide in which language he or she is most comfortable.
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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Arts and the Sciences are a natural symbiosis. They stem from the same human existential impulse – exploration. Exploration of what lies beneath the surface, and re-confuguration of elements of what we call reality.
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I am convinced that Nigeria would have been a more highly developed country without the oil. I wished we’d never smelled the fumes of petroleum.
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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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I have no money to give to you but I have ideas and organizational capacity.
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Sadness is twilight’s kiss on earth.
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Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.
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Some of us – poets are not exactly poets. We live sometimes – beyond the word.
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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.
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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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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.
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A human feast is an indifferent morsel to a god.
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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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The man dies in all those that keep silent.
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The 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.
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