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title: "5 Grew Quotes By Wole Soyinka"
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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wole-soyinka/i-was-born-into-a-christian-household-in-a-parsonage-in-fact-so-i/)

[Wole Soyinka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wole-soyinka/)

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> [As I grew older and more mature, I've been able to move beyond the immediate response of violence to a projection of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wole-soyinka/as-i-grew-older-and-more-mature-i-ve-been-able-to-move-beyond-the/)

[Wole Soyinka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wole-soyinka/)

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> [The blatant aggressiveness of theocracies I find distressing, because I grew up when Christians, Muslim and animists lived peacefully together.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wole-soyinka/the-blatant-aggressiveness-of-theocracies-i-find-distressing-because/)

[Wole Soyinka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wole-soyinka/)

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> [I grew up in an atmosphere where words were an integral part of culture.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wole-soyinka/i-grew-up-in-an-atmosphere-where-words-were-an-integral-part-of/)

[Wole Soyinka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wole-soyinka/)

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> [I grew up with a very strong sense of what is just and what is not or, to put it this way,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wole-soyinka/i-grew-up-with-a-very-strong-sense-of-what-is-just-and-what-is-not-or/)

[Wole Soyinka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wole-soyinka/)

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## Other authors on Grew

## More by Wole Soyinka

> [Writers and intellectuals have a duty to humanity. It is to insist that the human entity remains the primary asset in overall development; thus,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wole-soyinka/writers-and-intellectuals-have-a-duty-to-humanity-it-is-to-insist/)

[Wole Soyinka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wole-soyinka/)

> [When I tried to create a new political party, which I stressed that this is not my party. I believe very much that there…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wole-soyinka/when-i-tried-to-create-a-new-political-party-which-i-stressed-that/)

[Wole Soyinka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wole-soyinka/)

> [Each time I think I've created time for myself, along comes a throwback to disrupt my private space.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wole-soyinka/each-time-i-think-i-ve-created-time-for-myself-along-comes-a/)

[Wole Soyinka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wole-soyinka/)

> [I began writing early - very, very early... I was already writing short stories for the radio and selling poems to poetry and art…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wole-soyinka/i-began-writing-early-very-very-early-i-was-already-writing-short/)

[Wole Soyinka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wole-soyinka/)

> [My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wole-soyinka/my-horizon-on-humanity-is-enlarged-by-reading-the-writers-of-poems/)

[Wole Soyinka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wole-soyinka/)

> [Under a dictatorship, a nation ceases to exist. All that remains is a fiefdom, a planet of slaves regimented by aliens from outer-space.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wole-soyinka/under-a-dictatorship-a-nation-ceases-to-exist-all-that-remains-is-a/)

[Wole Soyinka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wole-soyinka/)

> [The phenomenon of creativity, we know, is closely related to the ability to yoke together separate, and even seemingly incompatible, matrices.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wole-soyinka/the-phenomenon-of-creativity-we-know-is-closely-related-to-the/)

[Wole Soyinka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wole-soyinka/)

> [One, a mass movement from within, which, as you know, is constantly being put down brutally but which, again, regroups and moves forward as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wole-soyinka/one-a-mass-movement-from-within-which-as-you-know-is-constantly-being/)

[Wole Soyinka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wole-soyinka/)

> [One has to confront history honestly.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wole-soyinka/one-has-to-confront-history-honestly/)

[Wole Soyinka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wole-soyinka/)

> [We wasted a lot of creative energy in that immediate post colonial era, when there was a struggle between, you know, the Cold War…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wole-soyinka/we-wasted-a-lot-of-creative-energy-in-that-immediate-post-colonial/)

[Wole Soyinka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wole-soyinka/)

> [I have a kind of magnetic attraction to situations of violence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wole-soyinka/i-have-a-kind-of-magnetic-attraction-to-situations-of-violence/)

[Wole Soyinka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wole-soyinka/)

> [The Egba kingdom was one of the very last to be ceded to the British protectorate. It remained almost an independent entity within what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wole-soyinka/the-egba-kingdom-was-one-of-the-very-last-to-be-ceded-to-the-british/)

[Wole Soyinka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wole-soyinka/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wole-soyinka/one-s-own-self-worth-is-tied-to-the-worth-of-the-community-to-which/)

[Wole Soyinka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wole-soyinka/)

> [I was born into a Christian household, in a parsonage in fact, so I grew up in sort of a missionary atmosphere but it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wole-soyinka/i-was-born-into-a-christian-household-in-a-parsonage-in-fact-so-i/)

[Wole Soyinka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wole-soyinka/)

> [The problem with literature, with writing, is that it works sometimes in terms of correction of social ills. Other times, it just does not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wole-soyinka/the-problem-with-literature-with-writing-is-that-it-works-sometimes/)

[Wole Soyinka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wole-soyinka/)

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