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The writer is the visionary of his people... He anticipates, he warns.
Wole Soyinka
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Wole Soyinka
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: July 13
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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 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'm not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning, put a piece of paper in their typewriter machine and start writing. That I've never understood.
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Writers - human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.
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Culture is a matrix of infinite possibilities and choices. From within the same culture matrix we can extract arguments and strategies for the degradation and ennoblement of our species, for its enslavement or liberation, for the suppression of its productive potential or its enhancement.
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Each time I think Ive created time for myself, along comes a throwback to disrupt my private space.
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One thing I can tell you is this, that I am not a methodical writer.
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Let's say there are prospects for a new Nigeria, but I don't think we have a new Nigeria yet.
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I have one abiding religion-human liberty.
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The novel, for me, was an accident. I really don't consider myself a novelist.
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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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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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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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The British inclined more towards the feudal mentality, the feudal structures rather than the more radical progressive elements who would re-shape society and institute pretty egalitarian systems of governance with opportunity for even disadvantaged people and so I found that decolonisation was not just the end of political struggle in Nigeria.
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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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There is only one home to the life of a river-mussel there is only one home to the life of a tortoise there is only one shell to the soul of man: there is only one world to the spirit of our race. If that world leaves its course and smashes on boulders of the great void, whose world will give us shelter?
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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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To achieve any change in the minds of the youth, there must be reorientation in terms of materialistic tendencies, corruption and crime generally.
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