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Wole Soyinka
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: July 13
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But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That's all.
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Given the scale of trauma caused by the genocide, Rwanda has indicated that however thin the hope of a community can be, a hero always emerges. Although no one can dare claim that it is now a perfect state, and that no more work is needed, Rwanda has risen from the ashes as a model or truth and reconciliation.
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We do not ask the mountain's aid to crack a walnut.
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As I grew older and more mature, I've been able to move beyond the immediate response of violence to a projection of the pragmatic, political consequences of that violence. So it's an effort to attain equilibrium.
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We live in a materialist world, and materialism appeals so strongly to humanity, no matter where.
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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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Writers - human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.
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A tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he pounces.
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I said: A tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he pounces. In other words: a tiger does not stand in the forest and say: I am a tiger. When you pass where the tiger has walked before, you see the skeleton of the duiker, you know that some tigritude has been emanated there.
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My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing at all to do with a volatile human condition or struggle or whatever. It enriches me as a human being.
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It's the place to begin, always -- to return to home, literally.
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I believe that each writer must decide in which language he or she is most comfortable.
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I am a glutton for tranquility.
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The writer is the visionary of his people... He anticipates, he warns.
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Alfred Nobel regretted that his invention, dynamite, was converted to degrading use, hence his creation of the Nobel Prize, as the humanist counter to the destructive power of his genius.
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I am disturbed for instance when I read that a candidate said, 'I will not probe anybody or something like that'. You don't fight corruption by sweeping everything under the carpet, you don't.
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Society itself is responsible for the degradation.
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I don't really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident.
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You go to conferences, and your fellow African intellectuals - and even heads of state - they all say: 'Nigeria is a big disappointment. It is the shame of the African continent.'
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One thing I can tell you is this, that I am not a methodical writer.
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