The media owes the responsibility to constantly tell the public the truth.
WOLE SOYINKATo achieve any change in the minds of the youth, there must be reorientation in terms of materialistic tendencies, corruption and crime generally.
More Wole Soyinka Quotes
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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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Be yourself. Ultimately just be yourself.
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I don’t really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident.
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I cannot accept the definition of collective good as articulated by a privileged minority in society, especially when that minority is in power.
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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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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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Sadness is twilight’s kiss on earth.
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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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As a global citizen, I sometimes feel like denying my identity.
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I have no money to give to you but I have ideas and organizational capacity.
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If man cannot, what god dare claim perfection?
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I know there are writers who get up every morning and sit by their typewriter or word processor or pad of paper and wait to write. I don’t function that way. I go through a long period of gestation before I’m even ready to write.
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I began writing early – very, very early… I was already writing short stories for the radio and selling poems to poetry and art festivals; I was involved in school plays; I wrote essays, so there was no definite moment when I said, ‘Now I’m a writer.’ I’ve always been a writer.
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The media must be used effectively to reach the masses. You have to find a new language in which to address the people and demonstrate what is possible.
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A human feast is an indifferent morsel to a god.
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