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Been Quotes by Wole Soyinka
- I am convinced that Nigeria would have been a more highly developed country without the oil. I wished we'd never smelled the fumes of petroleum.
- I began writing early - very, very early... I was already writing short stories for the radio and selling poems to poetry and art festivals;…
- The Sudanese government has been playing games with the world, with the Africa Union, in particular, have been playing for time in order to conclude…
- Books and all forms of writing have always been objects of terror to those who seek to suppress the truth.
- Trading and religion have always been aligned together in the history of the world, and especially on the African continent.
- [It] takes a jaundiced view of the much-vaunted glorious past of Africa. And I suppose since then I've been doing nothing but the danse macabre…
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- On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end… — Hank Aaron
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
- Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
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- Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or… — Richard Armour