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The youth should come together to challenge the status quo. They must not give up.

Wole Soyinka

I consider the process of gestation just as important as when you’re actually sitting down putting words to the paper.
WOLE SOYINKA

Actually Consider Gestation Important Process Put Sitmsown Word
Governance can dig itself into a huge hole and not even know it’s in there.
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Dig Even Governance Huge Itself Know There
Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.
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All Book Form Suppress Terror Truth Wish Write
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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Children Eliminate Mental Obstacle Our Say Talk Totally Transformation War
I am a very curious person; I’ll always ask: is this thing true, is it not true? And I use my own means to investigate and come to my conclusion.
WOLE SOYINKA

Always Ask Curious Person Thing True Very
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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Base Between Definition Deprivation Human People Relationship Slavery Volition
When a leader encourages the culture of impunity, the society is lost and it makes the work harder for the rest of us.
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Culture Encourage Harder Impurity Lost Make Rest Society Us World
Sadness is twilight’s kiss on earth.
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Earth Sadness Twilight
Some of us – poets are not exactly poets. We live sometimes – beyond the word.
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Beyond Exactly Live Some Poet Sometimes World
But when you’re deprived of it for a lengthy period then you value human companionship. But you have to survive and so you devise all kinds of mental exercises and it’s amazing.
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All Companionship Deprive Devise Human Kind Length Period Survive
There is something really horrific for any human being who feels he is being consumed by other people.
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Consume Feel Horrific Human Being Other People Really Sometimes
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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Believe Best Kind Learn Look Other Process Work
Alfred Nobel regretted that his invention, dynamite, was converted to degrading use, hence his creation of the Nobel Prize, as the humanist counter to the destructive power of his genius.
WOLE SOYINKA

Convert Creation Degrading Dynamite Hence Humanist Invention Nobel Prize Regretted
We do not ask the mountain’s aid to crack a walnut.
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Ask Crack Mountain Not Walnut
The man dies in all those that keep silent.
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All Die Keep Man Silent Those
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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Become Ideology Intolerance Reigning Think Today Whole World
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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All Behold Collect Denies Endless Link Man Mother Navel No Us Womb World
Don’t take shadows too seriously. Reality is your only safety. Continue to reject illusion.
WOLE SOYINKA

Continue Illusion Reality Reject Safety Seriously Shadow
Everybody knows that fraternities are a normal culture in all colleges. It exists in all colleges. President Clinton was a member of a fraternity. In fact, anybody who goes to College in the United States is a member of a College fraternity. There is absolutely nothing evil or occultic about fraternity.
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All College Cultural Everybody Fraternities Know Normal Wexist
Looking at faces of people, one gets the feeling there’s a lot of work to be done.
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Done Face Feel Get Look Lot People Work
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.
WOLE SOYINKA

Always Back Crusades Go Historical Inquisition Know Monster Really Religion Some Swawned Way
. . . 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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Concern Far Feel Play Regime Sheer Terror Well
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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Being Book Conscious Deprive Destroy Effort Fact Made Mean Mind Very Writing
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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Choice Culture Matrix Poosisblity
When you are looking for corruption, you should look at the entire stratum of the society, while some forms of corruption are direct, others are indirect.
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Corruption Direct Entire Form Look Other Society Some
It is the human potentials that interest me. I travel and everywhere I go I am amazed at the presence of Nigerians. The intelligence, integrity, productivity, initiative.
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Amaze Country Everywhere Human Interest People Person Potential Presence Travel
You have the entire gamut of human experience captured in the mythology of the Yoruba. This is what makes the Yoruba mythology a natural source material for me in my creative endeavours.
WOLE SOYINKA

Capture Entire Experience Gamut Human Make Mythology Natural Yoruba

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