It’s the place to begin, always — to return to home, literally.
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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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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The writer is the visionary of his people… He anticipates, he warns.
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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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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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There is something really horrific for any human being who feels he is being consumed by other people.
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Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom.
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The media owes the responsibility to constantly tell the public the truth.
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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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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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For me, justice is the prime condition of humanity.
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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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Each time I think Ive created time for myself, along comes a throwback to disrupt my private space.
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As a global citizen, I sometimes feel like denying my identity.
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We live in a materialist world, and materialism appeals so strongly to humanity, no matter where.
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If man cannot, what god dare claim perfection?
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