You accept whoever you are interacting with, directly, or indirectly.
WOLE SOYINKASadness is twilight’s kiss on earth.
More Wole Soyinka Quotes
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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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For me, a writer is already being the deuce of his mission, his occupation to society.
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It’s the place to begin, always — to return to home, literally.
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We live in a materialist world, and materialism appeals so strongly to humanity, no matter where.
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Be yourself. Ultimately just be yourself.
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The media owes the responsibility to constantly tell the public the truth.
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It is the human potentials that interest me. I travel and everywhere I go I am amazed at the presence of Nigerians. The intelligence, integrity, productivity, initiative.
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When I say war, I’m not talking about mental war; I’m talking about totally eliminating the obstacles to transformation of our children.
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If man cannot, what god dare claim perfection?
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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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Intolerance has always been with us, you know. The moment you have ideology, we have intolerance, whether it’s the secular ideology or, you know ideocratic ideology, which always brings with it some kind of intolerance.
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We do not ask the mountain’s aid to crack a walnut.
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Writers are human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.
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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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I can look violence in the face and either reject or accept it.
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