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Wole Soyinka Quotes

Nigerian - Dramatist | July 13, 1934 -

The scales of reckoning with mortality are never evenly weighted, alas, and thus it is on the shoulders of the living that the burden of justice must continue to rest.

Justice Rest Burden Living Never

Colonialism bred an innate arrogance, but when you undertake that sort of imperial adventure, that arrogance gives way to a feeling of accommodativeness. You take pride in your openness.

Adventure Pride Arrogance You Way

The problem with literature, with writing, is that it works sometimes in terms of correction of social ills. Other times, it just does not suffice.

Writing Literature Problem Sometimes

One, a mass movement from within, which, as you know, is constantly being put down brutally but which, again, regroups and moves forward as is happening right now as we are speaking.

Forward You Down Know Now Movement

Being the first black Nobel laureate, and the first African, the African world considered me personal property. I lost the remaining shreds of my anonymity, even to walk a few yards in London, Paris or Frankfurt without being stopped.

Walk Me World Black Lost Personal

I cannot belong to a nation which permits such barbarities as stoning to death and amputation - I don't care what religion it is.

Death Religion Care Nation Belong

The blatant aggressiveness of theocracies I find distressing, because I grew up when Christians, Muslim and animists lived peacefully together.

Together Find Up Lived Because Grew

No writer has a right to make that much money. Indeed, without diabolical assistance, no writer can.

Money Right Without Writer Much

Seven is the magic figure, because that's a symbolic figure of my favorite deity, Ogun.

Magic Because Favorite Seven Figure

The writer is the visionary of his people... He anticipates, he warns.

People Visionary Writer He His

One thing I can tell you is this, that I am not a methodical writer.

I Am You I Can Tell One Thing Thing

Human life has meaning only to that degree and as long as it is lived in the service of humanity.

Life Service Meaning Long Humanity

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