Believe Quotes by Wole Soyinka

10 Believe quotes by Wole Soyinka

For a taste of how belief intertwines with art and activism, Wole Soyinka offers ten succinct statements. Their brevity lets you savor his nuanced voice without a long read.

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In Africa, those who have money - businessmen and banks - do not believe in film.

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Politics, I believe, is a full-time occupation.

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I believe that each writer must decide in which language he or she is most comfortable.

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When I tried to create a new political party, which I stressed that this is not my party. I believe very much…

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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 do not believe that it is necessarily the duty of the writer to give a voice to his community. If a…

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I believe that prizes are useful things for the disciplines, whether we are talking about chemistry or we're talking... It motivates, it,…

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People say human nature is a very vague expression, people tend to say human nature is corruptible anyway and it comes from…

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It's my duty to fight those who have chosen to belong to the party of death, those who say they receive their…

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Nigeria is so peculiar and dramatic. Even talking about the potentials before we talk about the negativities, Nigeria is a nation for…

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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…

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My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing…

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Under a dictatorship, a nation ceases to exist. All that remains is a fiefdom, a planet of slaves regimented by aliens from outer-space.

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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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One, a mass movement from within, which, as you know, is constantly being put down brutally but which, again, regroups and moves forward as…

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One has to confront history honestly.

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We wasted a lot of creative energy in that immediate post colonial era, when there was a struggle between, you know, the Cold War…

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I have a kind of magnetic attraction to situations of violence.

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The Egba kingdom was one of the very last to be ceded to the British protectorate. It remained almost an independent entity within what…

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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…

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I was born into a Christian household, in a parsonage in fact, so I grew up in sort of a missionary atmosphere but it…

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