Some of us – poets are not exactly poets. We live sometimes – beyond the word.
WOLE SOYINKAAs a global citizen, I sometimes feel like denying my identity.
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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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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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Each time I think Ive created time for myself, along comes a throwback to disrupt my private space.
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Writers are human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.
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As a global citizen, I sometimes feel like denying my identity.
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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.
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To achieve any change in the minds of the youth, there must be reorientation in terms of materialistic tendencies, corruption and crime generally.
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But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That’s all.
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Colonialism bred an innate arrogance, but when you undertake that sort of imperial adventure, that arrogance gives way to a feeling of accommodativeness. You take pride in your openness.
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I don’t really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident.
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I believe that each writer must decide in which language he or she is most comfortable.
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The media must be used effectively to reach the masses. You have to find a new language in which to address the people and demonstrate what is possible.
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The writer is the visionary of his people… He anticipates, he warns.
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The media owes the responsibility to constantly tell the public the truth.
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When 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.
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