It’s the place to begin, always — to return to home, literally.
WOLE SOYINKAAs a global citizen, I sometimes feel like denying my identity.
More Wole Soyinka Quotes
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There is only one home to the life of a river-mussel; there is only one home to the life of a tortoise; there is only one shell to the soul of man: there is only one world to the spirit of our race. If that world leaves its course and smashes on boulders of the great void, whose world will give us shelter?
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I am a very curious person; I’ll always ask: is this thing true, is it not true? And I use my own means to investigate and come to my conclusion.
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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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Intolerance 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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We all have our individual artistic temperaments as well as partisanships in creative directions. And we have strong opinions on the merits of the products of our occupation.
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The youth should come together to challenge the status quo. They must not give up.
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The writer is the visionary of his people… He anticipates, he warns.
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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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The hand that dips into the bottom of the pot will eat the biggest snail.
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A human feast is an indifferent morsel to a god.
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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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A tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he pounces.
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But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That’s all.
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Culture is a matrix of infinite possibilities and choices. From within the same culture matrix we can extract arguments and strategies for the degradation and ennoblement of our species, for its enslavement or liberation, for the suppression of its productive potential or its enhancement.
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