We do not ask the mountain’s aid to crack a walnut.
WOLE SOYINKAI never hesitated, as a student, in embracing the necessity of violence. In South Africa, I didn’t just accept it; I looked forward to it as a mission.
More Wole Soyinka Quotes
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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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The writer is the visionary of his people… He anticipates, he warns.
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A human feast is an indifferent morsel to a god.
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Governance can dig itself into a huge hole and not even know it’s in there.
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Colonialism bred an innate arrogance, but when you undertake that sort of imperial adventure, that arrogance gives way to a feeling of accommodativeness. You take pride in your openness.
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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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See, even despite pious statements to the contrary, much of the industrialized world has not yet come to terms with the recognition of the fallacy of what I call the strong man syndrome.
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I never hesitated, as a student, in embracing the necessity of violence. In South Africa, I didn’t just accept it; I looked forward to it as a mission.
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I don’t really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident.
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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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The media owes the responsibility to constantly tell the public the truth.
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There is only one home to the life of a river-mussel; there is only one home to the life of a tortoise; there is only one shell to the soul of man: there is only one world to the spirit of our race. If that world leaves its course and smashes on boulders of the great void, whose world will give us shelter?
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You cannot live a normal existence if you haven’t taken care of a problem that affects your life and affects the lives of others, values that you hold which in fact define your very existence.
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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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