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.
WOLE SOYINKASadness is twilight’s kiss on earth.
More Wole Soyinka Quotes
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A tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he pounces.
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The writer is the visionary of his people… He anticipates, he warns.
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I don’t know any other way to live but to wake up everyday armed with my convictions, not yielding them to the threat of danger and to the power and force of people who might despise me.
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Don’t take shadows too seriously. Reality is your only safety. Continue to reject illusion.
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We do not ask the mountain’s aid to crack a walnut.
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The hand that dips into the bottom of the pot will eat the biggest snail.
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I believe that each writer must decide in which language he or she is most comfortable.
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Looking at faces of people, one gets the feeling there’s a lot of work to be done.
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As a global citizen, I sometimes feel like denying my identity.
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I never hesitated, as a student, in embracing the necessity of violence. In South Africa, I didn’t just accept it; I looked forward to it as a mission.
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Writers are human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.
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And gradually they’re beginning to recognize the fact that there’s nothing more secure than a democratic, accountable, and participatory form of government. But it’s sunk in only theoretically, it has not yet sunk in completely in practical terms.
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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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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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