For me, a writer is already being the deuce of his mission, his occupation to society.
WOLE SOYINKADon’t take shadows too seriously. Reality is your only safety. Continue to reject illusion.
More Wole Soyinka Quotes
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Romance is the sweetening of the soul With fragrance offered by the stricken heart.
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I believe that each writer must decide in which language he or she is most comfortable.
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We live in a materialist world, and materialism appeals so strongly to humanity, no matter where.
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The media owes the responsibility to constantly tell the public the truth.
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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.
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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 can look violence in the face and either reject or accept it.
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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.
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A tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he pounces.
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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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To achieve any change in the minds of the youth, there must be reorientation in terms of materialistic tendencies, corruption and crime generally.
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Don’t take shadows too seriously. Reality is your only safety. Continue to reject illusion.
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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 writer is the visionary of his people… He anticipates, he warns.
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Writers are human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.
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