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You Quotes by Wole Soyinka
- You cannot live a normal existence if you haven't taken care of a problem that affects your life and affects the lives of others, values…
- I consider the process of gestation just as important as when you're actually sitting down putting words to the paper.
- One, a mass movement from within, which, as you know, is constantly being put down brutally but which, again, regroups and moves forward as is…
- But when you're deprived of it for a lengthy period then you value human companionship. But you have to survive and so you devise all…
- There are different kinds of artists and very often, I'll be very frank with you, I wish I were a different kind.
- Very conscious of the fact that an effort was being made to destroy my mind, because I was deprived of books, deprived of any means…
- Colonialism bred an innate arrogance, but when you undertake that sort of imperial adventure, that arrogance gives way to a feeling of accommodativeness. You take…
- Some people think the Nobel Prize makes you bullet-proof. I never had that illusion.
- You always assume for some strange reason that you need three meals a day.
- 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…
- One thing I can tell you is this, that I am not a methodical writer.
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