Some of us – poets are not exactly poets. We live sometimes – beyond the word.
WOLE SOYINKAMy father used to tell me stories before I fell asleep. When the children would gather, at a certain point, I had a tendency to make up my own elementary variations on stories I had heard, or to invent totally new ones.
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But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That’s all.
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Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.
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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 youth should come together to challenge the status quo. They must not give up.
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It’s the place to begin, always — to return to home, literally.
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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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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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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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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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The media owes the responsibility to constantly tell the public the truth.
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I rarely use mythology for its own sake because, as a theatre person, the mythological figures are in fact humanity to the ninth degree and Yoruba mythology in particular has fascination of being one of the most humanised mythologies in the world.
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Arts and the Sciences are a natural symbiosis. They stem from the same human existential impulse – exploration. Exploration of what lies beneath the surface, and re-confuguration of elements of what we call reality.
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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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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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