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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They call me corrupt, frivolous. I am not at all privileged. Maybe the only privileged thing is my face. And corrupt? God! I would not look like this if I am corrupt. Some ugliness would settle down on my system.
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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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My parents were always very supportive and accepting. They even shared my curiosity for life, or perhaps I theirs.
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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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Life is not a burden, but we make it one when we refuse to accept things as they are.
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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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I've always been incapable of accepting fate, and I've always refused to die, and that has helped me to survive.
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Many people seem to think that art is a luxury to be imported and tacked on to life. Art springs out of the very stuff that life is made of. Most of our young authors start to write a story and make a few observations from nature to add local color. The results are invariably false and hollow. Art must spring out of the fullness and richness of life.
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I work hard, so I surround myself with people that work just as hard. It's important if you want to create a successful brand. Also, the concept of being "tired" doesn't really apply to me. In fact, I don't even consider "tired" tired. If you want to succeed and be successful, you can't let it bother you.
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Psychology is sometimes called a new science. This is quite wrong. Psychology is, perhaps, the oldest science, and, unfortunately, in its most essential features a forgotten science.
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Now it’s high watermark and floodtide in the heart and time to go. The sea-nymphs in the spray will be the chorus now. What’s left to say? Suspect too much sweet-talk but never close your mind. It was a fortunate wind that blew me here. I leave half-ready to believe that a crippled trust might walk and the half-true rhyme is love.
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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.
