I have no money to give to you but I have ideas and organizational capacity.
WOLE SOYINKABut the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That’s all.
More Wole Soyinka Quotes
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The media owes the responsibility to constantly tell the public the truth.
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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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Writers are human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.
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For me, a writer is already being the deuce of his mission, his occupation to society.
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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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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’m not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning, put a piece of paper in their typewriter machine and start writing. That I’ve never understood.
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The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.
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Looking at faces of people, one gets the feeling there’s a lot of work to be done.
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Mythology can be used, and has been used, even to re-state, you know, the very urgent problems of the world.
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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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A human feast is an indifferent morsel to a god.
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I began writing early – very, very early… I was already writing short stories for the radio and selling poems to poetry and art festivals; I was involved in school plays; I wrote essays, so there was no definite moment when I said, ‘Now I’m a writer.’ I’ve always been a writer.
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We live in a materialist world, and materialism appeals so strongly to humanity, no matter where.
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Be yourself. Ultimately just be yourself.
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