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Wole Soyinka
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Wole Soyinka
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: July 13
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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 believe that each writer must decide in which language he or she is most comfortable.
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But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That's all.
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I grew up in an atmosphere where words were an integral part of culture.
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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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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.
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And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others.
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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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The Egba kingdom was one of the very last to be ceded to the British protectorate. It remained almost an independent entity within what is now known as Nigeria, simply because of its own traditional structure of governance.
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I am a glutton for tranquility.
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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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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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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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I am convinced that Nigeria would have been a more highly developed country without the oil. I wished we'd never smelled the fumes of petroleum.
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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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Writers who open up horizons for other people are performing a function every bit as important as a consciously politicized writer.
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There's something about the theater which makes my fingertips tingle.
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I began writing early - very, very early... I was already writing short stories for the radio and selling poems to poetry and art festivals I was involved in school plays I wrote essays, so there was no definite moment when I said, 'Now I'm a writer.' I've always been a writer.
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The problem with literature, with writing, is that it works sometimes in terms of correction of social ills. Other times, it just does not suffice. The proof of that is the ability of a dictator to snuff out the life of a writer.
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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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