Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.
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 consider the process of gestation just as important as when you’re actually sitting down putting words to the paper.
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There’s a lot of insincerity about the actions of our legislators; they create distractions – like this anti-gay law you alluded to – and try to mobilise, to exacerbate people’s emotions. Until the legislators started making laws, people minded, generally, their own business.
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I have one abiding religion-human liberty.
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Romance is the sweetening of the soul With fragrance offered by the stricken heart.
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My definition of slavery is the deprivation of human volition, any form of relationship between two peoples which is based on the deprivation of volition of one side.
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No man beholds his mother’s womb Yet who denies it’s there? Coiled To the navel of the world is that Endless cord that links us all To the great Origin. If I lose my way. The trailing cord will bring me to the roots.
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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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And gradually they’re beginning to recognize the fact that there’s nothing more secure than a democratic, accountable, and participatory form of government. But it’s sunk in only theoretically, it has not yet sunk in completely in practical terms.
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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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For me, a writer is already being the deuce of his mission, his occupation to society.
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History teaches us to beware of the excitation of the liberated and the injustices that often accompany their righteous thirst for justice.
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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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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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I believe that each writer must decide in which language he or she is most comfortable.
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The media owes the responsibility to constantly tell the public the truth.
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