The writer is the visionary of his people… He anticipates, he warns.
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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As a global citizen, I sometimes feel like denying my identity.
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But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That’s all.
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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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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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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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I have one abiding religion-human liberty.
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Well, some people say I’m pessimistic because I recognize the eternal cycle of evil. All I say is, look at the history of mankind right up to this moment and what do you find?
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You accept whoever you are interacting with, directly, or indirectly.
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Some of us – poets are not exactly poets. We live sometimes – beyond the word.
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And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others.
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I know there are writers who get up every morning and sit by their typewriter or word processor or pad of paper and wait to write. I don’t function that way. I go through a long period of gestation before I’m even ready to write.
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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 consider the process of gestation just as important as when you’re actually sitting down putting words to the paper.
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A tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he pounces.
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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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