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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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When you are looking for corruption, you should look at the entire stratum of the society, while some forms of corruption are direct, others are indirect.
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Society itself is responsible for the degradation.
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For many playwrights, they write the plays anyway because they've got to be, the work has been started, it's got to be finished, but we all long, I think, to see the plays fleshed out on stage and I'm exactly like that. Yes, I'm not satisfied until I actually see it on stage.
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I do not believe that it is necessarily the duty of the writer to give a voice to his community. If a writer is true to his vocation, to his or her vocation, the very process of creativity enlarges these human horizons. It provides insights, even when you're not writing, when your writing's not dealing with a concrete political situation.
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One thing I can tell you is this, that I am not a methodical writer.
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The novel, for me, was an accident. I really don't consider myself a novelist.
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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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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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I cannot accept the definition of collective good as articulated by a privileged minority in society, especially when that minority is in power.
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The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.
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The idea of having to make constant reference to politics is anathema to my calling as a writer.
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