The media owes the responsibility to constantly tell the public the truth.
WOLE SOYINKAAs a global citizen, I sometimes feel like denying my identity.
More Wole Soyinka Quotes
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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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When a leader encourages the culture of impunity, the society is lost and it makes the work harder for the rest of us.
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You have the entire gamut of human experience captured in the mythology of the Yoruba. This is what makes the Yoruba mythology a natural source material for me in my creative endeavours.
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Sadness is twilight’s kiss on earth.
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My definition of slavery is the deprivation of human volition, any form of relationship between two peoples which is based on the deprivation of volition of one side.
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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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If man cannot, what god dare claim perfection?
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A human feast is an indifferent morsel to a god.
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You accept whoever you are interacting with, directly, or indirectly.
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The writer is the visionary of his people… He anticipates, he warns.
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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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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 consider the process of gestation just as important as when you’re actually sitting down putting words to the paper.
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We do not ask the mountain’s aid to crack a walnut.
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Very conscious of the fact that an effort was being made to destroy my mind, because I was deprived of books, deprived of any means of writing, deprived of human companionship. You never know how much you need it until you’re deprived of it.
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