I don’t really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident.
WOLE SOYINKAHistory teaches us to beware of the excitation of the liberated and the injustices that often accompany their righteous thirst for justice.
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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There’s a lot of insincerity about the actions of our legislators; they create distractions – like this anti-gay law you alluded to – and try to mobilise, to exacerbate people’s emotions. Until the legislators started making laws, people minded, generally, their own business.
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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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Some of us – poets are not exactly poets. We live sometimes – beyond the word.
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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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Well, some people say I’m pessimistic because I recognize the eternal cycle of evil. All I say is, look at the history of mankind right up to this moment and what do you find?
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Romance is the sweetening of the soul With fragrance offered by the stricken heart.
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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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Sadness is twilight’s kiss on earth.
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I believe that each writer must decide in which language he or she is most comfortable.
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For me, a writer is already being the deuce of his mission, his occupation to society.
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Governance can dig itself into a huge hole and not even know it’s in there.
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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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Culture is a matrix of infinite possibilities and choices. From within the same culture matrix we can extract arguments and strategies for the degradation and ennoblement of our species, for its enslavement or liberation, for the suppression of its productive potential or its enhancement.
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I have no money to give to you but I have ideas and organizational capacity.
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