A tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he pounces.
WOLE SOYINKAThe youth should come together to challenge the status quo. They must not give up.
More Wole Soyinka Quotes
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I am convinced that Nigeria would have been a more highly developed country without the oil. I wished we’d never smelled the fumes of petroleum.
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The media owes the responsibility to constantly tell the public the truth.
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We live in a materialist world, and materialism appeals so strongly to humanity, no matter where.
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It’s the place to begin, always — to return to home, literally.
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Some of us – poets are not exactly poets. We live sometimes – beyond the word.
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For me, justice is the prime condition of humanity.
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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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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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Religion has really spawned some monsters. It always has, historically. Go all the way back to the Inquisition, you know, the Crusades, the Jehad and so on.
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Arts and the Sciences are a natural symbiosis. They stem from the same human existential impulse – exploration. Exploration of what lies beneath the surface, and re-confuguration of elements of what we call reality.
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Be yourself. Ultimately just be yourself.
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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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Romance is the sweetening of the soul With fragrance offered by the stricken heart.
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As a global citizen, I sometimes feel like denying my identity.
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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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