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Wole Soyinka Inspirational Quotes (141)

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For me, a writer is already being the deuce of his mission, his occupation to society.
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Intolerance has become, I think, the reigning ideology of the world today, the intolerance versus intolerance and it's taken on lethal proportions.
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It's the place to begin, always -- to return to home, literally.
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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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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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Don't feel that you have to tailor your literature a particular way to please any school of ideology. There will emerge in its own right, effortlessly, some kind of ideological direction which is a reflection of your thinking and you want your thinking, above all.
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We wasted a lot of creative energy in that immediate post colonial era, when there was a struggle between, you know, the Cold War between the capitalism and communism. Many writers just wasted their energy and their talent because they want to be ideologically correct and of course all they produced was propaganda.
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I found, when I left, that there were others who felt the same way. We'd meet, they'd come and seek me out, we'd talk about the future. And I found that their depression and pessimism was every bit as acute as mine.
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Writers - human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.
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Being the first black Nobel laureate, and the first African, the African world considered me personal property. I lost the remaining shreds of my anonymity, even to walk a few yards in London, Paris or Frankfurt without being stopped.
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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 you start a political party, you are creating space for yourself. So many people were shocked when they realized that I was serious and had no interest in occupying any political position, so they started to fall out one by one.
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I have no money to give to you but I have ideas and organizational capacity.
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Society itself is responsible for the degradation.
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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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I have one abiding religion-human liberty.
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Romance is the sweetening of the soul With fragrance offered by the stricken heart.
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Sadly however, I discovered in one particular case that a colleague went and paid the bribe on my behalf, just to get our mission fulfilled. That was painful, and it strained our friendship.
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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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Pity you can't be present during my periodic fault-finding sessions with my image in the mirror!
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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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The novel, for me, was an accident. I really don't consider myself a novelist.
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We live in the real world - we live within a certain history of the plague that has landed on us.
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You accept whoever you are interacting with, directly, or indirectly.
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