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Some of us – poets are not exactly poets. We live sometimes – beyond the word.
Wole Soyinka
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Wole Soyinka
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: July 13
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Arts and the Sciences are a natural symbiosis. They stem from the same human existential impulse - exploration. Exploration of what lies beneath the surface, and re-confuguration of elements of what we call reality.
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In European and American society, many pundits started to lament the death of literature looking at youth who were getting more and more attracted to sitcoms - hard, adventure films and said, our children are no longer reading, or else they're reading cartoons.
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When you fight corruption, corruption strikes back and that is the truth because when you fight corruption, you get confidence and when it gets to impunity, then it gets aggressive and says, 'oh, so you think you are different? You think you are tough and different?' This is why some of us are almost permanently in the libel court.
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I think that feeling that if one believed absolutely in any cause, then one must have the confidence, the self-certainty, to go through with that particular course of action.
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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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We live in the real world - we live within a certain history of the plague that has landed on us.
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My interest in culture generally is a comparative one, and I think that's where the word joy, I think, can be applicable. There's joy in actually seeing the relatedness, the connectedness of different cultures or recognising, for instance, your own culture in another or another culture in your own culture and feeling an air to all of them.
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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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A tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he pounces.
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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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It's my duty to fight those who have chosen to belong to the party of death, those who say they receive their orders from God somewhere and believe they have a duty to set the world on fire to achieve their own salvation.
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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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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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The novel, for me, was an accident. I really don't consider myself a novelist.
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For me, justice is the prime condition of humanity.
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If you are corrupt and you have extra cash you are able to shut the mouth of your accuser and they will be silenced.
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I believe that each writer must decide in which language he or she is most comfortable.
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When I tried to create a new political party, which I stressed that this is not my party. I believe very much that there has to be a revolution and this is a party for the young.
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My understanding of the creative process is simply that all cultures and all concerns meet at a certain point, the human point in which everything is related to one another. That has been my creative experience.
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Under a dictatorship, a nation ceases to exist. All that remains is a fiefdom, a planet of slaves regimented by aliens from outer-space.
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