Wole Soyinka Quotes
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What I teach is literary criticism and comparative literature and so on and that's my function, but from time to time it's possible for me actually to help a writer. I read something and something strikes me then, I feel I can talk to that writer about it.
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Obasanjo has openly endorsed violence as a means of governance, embraced and empowered individuals whose avowed declarations, confessions and acts are cynically contrary to the mandate that alone upholds the legitimacy and dignity of his office.
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Even when I'm writing plays I enjoy having company and mentally I think of that company as the company I'm writing for.
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As a global citizen, I sometimes feel like denying my identity.
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We live in the real world - we live within a certain history of the plague that has landed on us.
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But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That's why I call it the most social of the various art forms.
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I think I'm a very lazy writer and by that I mean that I do not battle, I don't struggle too hard against it. If I have difficulties in the writing, I just go and do other things. I don't feel a compulsion to write.
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Some of us – poets are not exactly poets. We live sometimes – beyond the word.
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I grew up in an atmosphere where words were an integral part of culture.
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I never hesitated, as a student, in embracing the necessity of violence. In South Africa, I didn't just accept it; I looked forward to it as a mission.
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Romance is the sweetening of the soul With fragrance offered by the stricken heart.
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Writers - human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.
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Well, first of all I'll say that I come alive best in theater.
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Only 4 sets of people can vote for the PDP: (1) those who are intellectually blind; (2) those who are blinded by ethnicity; (3) those who are blinded by corruption and therefore afraid of the unknown, should power change hands; and finally (4) those who are suffering from a combination of the above terminal sicknesses.