I have one abiding religion-human liberty.
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.
More Wole Soyinka Quotes
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I can look violence in the face and either reject or accept it.
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If man cannot, what god dare claim perfection?
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Writers are human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.
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The man dies in all those that keep silent.
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Don’t take shadows too seriously. Reality is your only safety. Continue to reject illusion.
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For me, a writer is already being the deuce of his mission, his occupation to society.
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A tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he pounces.
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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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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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The writer is the visionary of his people… He anticipates, he warns.
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The media owes the responsibility to constantly tell the public the truth.
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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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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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As a global citizen, I sometimes feel like denying my identity.
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