Wole Soyinka Quotes
We live in the real world - we live within a certain history of the plague that has landed on us.
Quotes to Explore
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When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.
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Devo and The Cramps didn't get big until they went to New York City. Chrissie Hynde didn't get big until she moved to London. When I was growing up, there wasn't even a place to play - just one little bar. If we wanted to have a gig, then we had to drive 45 minutes up to Cleveland.
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I oscillate between being cynical and being naive on a regular basis. I always think that not much shocks me until something much too obvious does.
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There's a consequence for everything, and that goes back to the Bible for me.
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I have many times marveled at how I could feel so good about myself while eating peanuts in a middle seat on Southwest Airlines and yet feel so condescended to in first class on United.
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Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.
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I want to be treated like a musician.
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I grew up being into sports and I wasn't trained to move my body in the right way for dancing. I'm the last one to get any moves correct. In rehearsals it's always, 'OK, one more take for Zac.'
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I don't believe that a hydrogen economy depends on a carbon economy at all.
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Kids deserve arts, and it's just as important as science, math, history, English or athletics.
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The problem with faith, is that it really is a conversation stopper. Faith is a declaration of immunity to the powers of conversation. It is a reason, why you do not have to give reasons, for what you believe.
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Man must first live before he can live abundantly.
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They tell us it will be about 'emotions' and 'friendship,' that it will be a night of joy. Who are they kidding?
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Cultures render their icons in their own image. Which comes down to vanity, in some sense.
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I had classical training but I don't consider myself an opera singer though.
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I have what I like to call a 'chinneck.' My chin just flows rather easily into my neck.
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In west London where I live, white people are a minority. In the area I am in, which is the borough of Brent, whites are less than 50%.
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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.
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I don't read much when I'm working. When I'm finished work, I don't want a thing to do with words.
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Since I am coming to that holy room, Where, with thy choir of saints forevermore, I shall be made thy music; as I come I tune the instrument here at the door, And what I must do then, think here before.
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I don't want everything to be flowery perfection. I like it there to be a charge behind it, you know?
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The sacred sense of beyond, of timelessness, of a world which had an eternal value and the substance of which was divine had been given back to me today by this friend of mine who taught me dancing.
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For things to have value in man's world, they are given the role of commodities. Among man's oldest and most constant commodity is woman.
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We live in the real world - we live within a certain history of the plague that has landed on us.
