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Looking at faces of people, one gets the feeling there's a lot of work to be done.
Wole Soyinka
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Wole Soyinka
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: July 13
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There are different kinds of artists and very often, I'll be very frank with you, I wish I were a different kind.
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I come alive when I have assisted in bringing out the printed word on the stage, you know, and I enjoy directing plays. It's a tactile process, theatre, unlike a number of other forms of the creative work.
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Even when I'm writing plays I enjoy having company and mentally I think of that company as the company I'm writing for.
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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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A human feast is an indifferent morsel to a god.
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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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Colonialism bred an innate arrogance, but when you undertake that sort of imperial adventure, that arrogance gives way to a feeling of accommodativeness. You take pride in your openness.
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