I believe that each writer must decide in which language he or she is most comfortable.
WOLE SOYINKAAs a global citizen, I sometimes feel like denying my identity.
More Wole Soyinka Quotes
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I have no money to give to you but I have ideas and organizational capacity.
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We do not ask the mountain’s aid to crack a walnut.
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It’s the place to begin, always — to return to home, literally.
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The hand that dips into the bottom of the pot will eat the biggest snail.
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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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I don’t really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident.
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The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.
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. . . as far as the regime is concerned, well, the play is sheer terror for them. Because they feel, How dare – how dare anybody lift his or her voice in criticism against us? We have the guns. Their level of paranoia and power-drunkenness is unbelievable.
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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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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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A tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he pounces.
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The man dies in all those that keep silent.
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Governance can dig itself into a huge hole and not even know it’s in there.
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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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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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