Wole Soyinka Quotes

The process of decolonisation in Nigeria was a very untidy one. The British, when they were leaving finally and knew exactly who they wanted to take over, they wanted pliant government, figures, structures, they wanted to continue indirectly in effect their control over much of their colonial possessions and this was one of the very early causes of conflict.

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• An epic is not made by piecing together a set of heroic lays, adjusting their discrepancies and making them into a continuous narrative.

  

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• It is typical of women to fester and ferment over disappointments, slights, annoyances, angers, etc.

  

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• One of the few benefits of being a journalist is that you're not in the Army.

  

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• The logical thing is to implement the Arab Defense Agreement.

  

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• I decided it was time to pay tribute to my own songs, to give them the opportunity to mature and be adult.

  

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• Europe is especially vulnerable to terrorists who may hide among the refugees pouring across its borders.

  

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• I used to play the trombone and the trumpet, which I still have, but I haven't picked up for a long time.

  

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• Jose Mourinho and I get along well. I've lots of respect for him. He gives me a lot of confidence. After a bad game, he dares to say, 'We have played with 10 today,' but that's it. At moments like that, he leaves me alone.

  

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• I sat down and wrote, 'Are your emotions pure? Are they the stuff of heroes or the alloyed mess of the beaten? How do you stand in relation to the potato?' And it was a lot of fun, and I kept going and woke up at some point in some horror that I had about 142 pages of this.

  

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• I read a very romantic book when I was young, when I was in college: Rilke's 'Letters to a Young Poet.' And I've always felt that if you are in any kind of an artistic, creative endeavor, and you feel there's something else you can do for a living and be happy, I think you should do something else.

  

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• The state doesn't own your children. Parents own the children.

  

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• My dad recently reminded me that my grandfather's cousin was Lefty Frizzell.

  

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• If religious people deny paradise to their opponents or to 'non-believers,' atheists would likewise seek to eliminate 'dangerous' believers with their 'childish' ways and their heads in the clouds.

  

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• I was really ambitious, so I was innovative. I was one of the first DJs to do live calls, 'cause I found this phone device that would pick up other people's voices.

  

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• My father was not comfortable working with very articulate people. He and Willie Wyler got along because neither of them was very articulate.

  

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• If Pocahontas had been given the foresight to see what devastating consequences her actions and belief in the possibility of peace would have brought upon her people, I wonder if she would have avoided befriending the English or not.

  

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• Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?

  

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• A source of conflict for women everywhere is the pull between reproduction and production. Women worldwide have difficulty in balancing their dual roles as caregivers and providers.

  

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• The process of decolonisation in Nigeria was a very untidy one. The British, when they were leaving finally and knew exactly who they wanted to take over, they wanted pliant government, figures, structures, they wanted to continue indirectly in effect their control over much of their colonial possessions and this was one of the very early causes of conflict.

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • Leaving
  • Causes
  • Conflict