Kind Quotes by Wole Soyinka

9 Kind quotes by Wole Soyinka

Wole Soyinka’s words on kindness blend literary depth with moral clarity. Though brief, these nine excerpts reveal his ability to marry cultural insight with a gentle call for empathy, making them a solid starter for readers new to his voice.

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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 have a kind of magnetic attraction to situations of violence.

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There are different kinds of artists and very often, I'll be very frank with you, I wish I were a different kind.

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But when you're deprived of it for a lengthy period then you value human companionship. But you have to survive and so…

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There's a kind of dynamic quality about theater and that dynamic quality expresses itself in relation to, first of all, the environment…

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Intolerance has always been with us, you know. The moment you have ideology, we have intolerance, whether it's the secular ideology or,…

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Don't feel that you have to tailor your literature a particular way to please any school of ideology. There will emerge in…

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Religion is all based on the mentality of "I'm right", but now today it's moved from even the question of "I'm right…

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With theatre, you can interpret the most complex play on stage for it have meaning to an audience because you're dealing in…

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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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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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