As a global citizen, I sometimes feel like denying my identity.
WOLE SOYINKADon’t take shadows too seriously. Reality is your only safety. Continue to reject illusion.
More Wole Soyinka Quotes
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We live in a materialist world, and materialism appeals so strongly to humanity, no matter where.
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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 is something really horrific for any human being who feels he is being consumed by other people.
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If man cannot, what god dare claim perfection?
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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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But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That’s all.
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Let’s say there are prospects for a new Nigeria, but I don’t think we have a new Nigeria yet.
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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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I don’t know any other way to live but to wake up everyday armed with my convictions, not yielding them to the threat of danger and to the power and force of people who might despise me.
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The writer is the visionary of his people… He anticipates, he warns.
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But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That’s why I call it the most social of the various art forms.
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We all have our individual artistic temperaments as well as partisanships in creative directions. And we have strong opinions on the merits of the products of our occupation.
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Be yourself. Ultimately just be yourself.
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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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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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