Wole Soyinka Quotes
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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Minorities have been hustling backwards from check to check.
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I am infinitely grateful to the life which privileged me.
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My peers accept me and respect me, and that's enough.
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If you can accept your differentness and learn to love it and encourage it, then you can be someone wonderful.
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Could we say that the short short is to other kinds of fiction somewhat as the lyric is to other kinds of poetry? The lyric does not seek meaning through extension, it accepts the enigmas of confinement. It strives for a rapid unity of impression, an experience rendered in its wink of immediacy. And so too with the short short.
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Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better.
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Biography is history seen through the prism of a person.
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My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going on to be scared.
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I love you Philadelphia. I want to thank you for accepting me, and letting me be me and make this my home forever.
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Have we fallen into a mesmerized state that makes us accept as inevitable that which is inferior or detrimental, as though having lost the will or the vision to demand that which is good?
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I am very privileged and honored when someone chooses to read a book, especially a book of mine.
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I mean thats a big part of our existence here on earth, the personal relationship we have with the person that we love, with the person that we make love to, with the person that we share our lives with. We expect a lot of things back from our loved one, and the lesson is to accept and not expect.
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Doing Saturday Night Live definitely affects my relationship with my girlfriend and with my family, because you feel so much pressure to do well that night. But I think everyone's grown to accept that and so they give me my space at the show.
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I no longer idolize reason. I have come to accept that ninety percent of what we do is irrational and that we spend what little rational thought we have in justifying our irrationality.
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If it is hard to accept a rebuke, even a private one, it is harder still to administer one in loving humility.
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She has the gift of accepting her life.
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We are left with nothing but death, the irreducible fact of our own mortality. Death after a long illness we can accept with resignation. Even accidental death we can ascribe to fate. But for a man to die of no apparent cause, for a man to die simply because he is a man, brings us so close to the invisible boundary between life and death that we no longer know which side we are on. Life becomes death, and it is as if this death has owned this life all along. Death without warning. Which is to say: life stops. And it can stop at any moment.
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Becoming a writer is not a 'career decision' like becoming a doctor or a policeman. You don't choose it so much as get chosen, and once you accept the fact that you're not fit for anything else, you have to be prepared to walk a long, hard road for the rest of your days.
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If you don't like your definition of 'good enough', then feel free to change that, but the goal before shipping is merely that. Not perfect.
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If we trace the progress of our minds, and with attention observe how it repeats, adds together, and unites its simple ideas received from sensation or reflection, it will lead us farther than at first, perhaps, we should have imagined.
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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.
