Nigerian - Dramatist | July 13, 1934 -
A tiger does not shout its tigritude, it acts.
Wole Soyinka
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Each time I think I've created time for myself, along comes a throwback to disrupt my private space.
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I began writing early - very, very early... I was already writing short stories for the radio and selling poems to poetry and art festivals; I was involved in school plays; I wrote essays, so there was no definite moment when I said, 'Now I'm a writer.' I've always been a writer.
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I like my peace and quiet whenever I can grab it.
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Rwanda, which is one of the younger independent states in Africa, must be regarded as a model of how great human trauma can be transformed to commence true reconstruction of people. Human trauma can lead to stunted growth and mass withdrawal.
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And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others.
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I am a glutton for tranquility.
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We live in a materialist world, and materialism appeals so strongly to humanity, no matter where.
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One's own self-worth is tied to the worth of the community to which one belongs, which is intimately connected to humanity in general. What happens in Darfur becomes an assault on my own community, and on me as an individual. That's what the human family is all about.
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The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.
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One has a responsibility to clean up one's space and make it livable as far as one's own resources go. That includes not only material resources, but psychological resources: the commitment of time and a portion of your mind to something when you'd rather be doing something else.
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Very conscious of the fact that an effort was being made to destroy my mind, because I was deprived of books, deprived of any means of writing, deprived of human companionship. You never know how much you need it until you're deprived of it.
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