Nigerian - Dramatist | July 13, 1934 -
History teaches us to beware of the excitation of the liberated and the injustices that often accompany their righteous thirst for justice.
Wole Soyinka
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The Lagos of my childhood was a well-laid-out maritime city.
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The phenomenon of creativity, we know, is closely related to the ability to yoke together separate, and even seemingly incompatible, matrices.
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Some of the greatest uprisings and consequent civil wars in Mexico have centered squarely on the ownership of land.
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Writers and intellectuals have a duty to humanity. It is to insist that the human entity remains the primary asset in overall development; thus, it must be safeguarded.
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Politics, I believe, is a full-time occupation.
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My father was a schoolteacher, and so I had the advantage of both western educational instruction in the school, as well as what you might call the process of imbibing the traditional processes of education instruction around me.
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My understanding of the creative process is simply that all cultures and all concerns meet at a certain point, the human point in which everything is related to one another. That has been my creative experience. I never know who's influencing me at any time.
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Military dictatorship, you can focus on it, you can fight it directly. It's a band of power-driven people.
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Those nations that say it's a crime to preach your religion are making a terrible mistake. All they're doing is driving underground other forms of spiritual intuitions and practices.
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Trading and religion have always been aligned together in the history of the world, and especially on the African continent.
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I have a kind of magnetic attraction to situations of violence.
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