My understanding of the creative process is simply that all cultures and all concerns meet at a certain point, the human point in which everything is related to one another. That has been my creative experience.
WOLE SOYINKAWhen 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.
More Wole Soyinka Quotes
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Alfred Nobel regretted that his invention, dynamite, was converted to degrading use, hence his creation of the Nobel Prize, as the humanist counter to the destructive power of his genius.
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I can look violence in the face and either reject or accept it.
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For me, a writer is already being the deuce of his mission, his occupation to society.
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Looking at faces of people, one gets the feeling there’s a lot of work to be done.
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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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I rarely use mythology for its own sake because, as a theatre person, the mythological figures are in fact humanity to the ninth degree and Yoruba mythology in particular has fascination of being one of the most humanised mythologies in the world.
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Mythology can be used, and has been used, even to re-state, you know, the very urgent problems of the world.
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No man beholds his mother’s womb Yet who denies it’s there? Coiled To the navel of the world is that Endless cord that links us all To the great Origin. If I lose my way. The trailing cord will bring me to the roots.
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Some of us – poets are not exactly poets. We live sometimes – beyond the word.
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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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Governance can dig itself into a huge hole and not even know it’s in there.
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You accept whoever you are interacting with, directly, or indirectly.
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I never hesitated, as a student, in embracing the necessity of violence. In South Africa, I didn’t just accept it; I looked forward to it as a mission.
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I believe that each writer must decide in which language he or she is most comfortable.
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A tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he pounces.
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