A tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he pounces.
WOLE SOYINKAIntolerance has become, I think, the reigning ideology of the world today, the intolerance versus intolerance and it’s taken on lethal proportions.
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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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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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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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Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.
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Romance is the sweetening of the soul With fragrance offered by the stricken heart.
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We live in a materialist world, and materialism appeals so strongly to humanity, no matter where.
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I can look violence in the face and either reject or accept it.
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What I teach is literary criticism and comparative literature and so on and that’s my function, but from time to time it’s possible for me actually to help a writer. I read something and something strikes me then, I feel I can talk to that writer about it.
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Intolerance has always been with us, you know. The moment you have ideology, we have intolerance, whether it’s the secular ideology or, you know ideocratic ideology, which always brings with it some kind of intolerance.
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But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That’s all.
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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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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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Looking at faces of people, one gets the feeling there’s a lot of work to be done.
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Writers are human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.
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The writer is the visionary of his people… He anticipates, he warns.
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