For me, a writer is already being the deuce of his mission, his occupation to society.
WOLE SOYINKABooks and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.
More Wole Soyinka Quotes
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I believe that each writer must decide in which language he or she is most comfortable.
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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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We live in a materialist world, and materialism appeals so strongly to humanity, no matter where.
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Romance is the sweetening of the soul With fragrance offered by the stricken heart.
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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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I don’t really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident.
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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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For me, justice is the prime condition of humanity.
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When I say war, I’m not talking about mental war; I’m talking about totally eliminating the obstacles to transformation of our children.
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Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom.
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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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A tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he pounces.
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I cannot accept the definition of collective good as articulated by a privileged minority in society, especially when that minority is in power.
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I can look violence in the face and either reject or accept it.
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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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