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.
WOLE SOYINKAIntolerance has become, I think, the reigning ideology of the world today, the intolerance versus intolerance and it’s taken on lethal proportions.
More Wole Soyinka Quotes
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The hand that dips into the bottom of the pot will eat the biggest snail.
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We do not ask the mountain’s aid to crack a walnut.
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Writers are human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.
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The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.
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The media owes the responsibility to constantly tell the public the truth.
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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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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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You accept whoever you are interacting with, directly, or indirectly.
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Everybody knows that fraternities are a normal culture in all colleges. It exists in all colleges. President Clinton was a member of a fraternity. In fact, anybody who goes to College in the United States is a member of a College fraternity. There is absolutely nothing evil or occultic about fraternity.
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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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My father used to tell me stories before I fell asleep. When the children would gather, at a certain point, I had a tendency to make up my own elementary variations on stories I had heard, or to invent totally new ones.
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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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For me, a writer is already being the deuce of his mission, his occupation to society.
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But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That’s all.
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I have no money to give to you but I have ideas and organizational capacity.
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