Wole Soyinka

I think that feeling that if one believed absolutely in any cause, then one must have the confidence, the self-certainty, to go through with that particular course of action. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

#action #any #believed #cause #confidence

I'm not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning, put a piece of paper in their typewriter machine and start writing. That I've never understood. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

#get #i #learned #machine #morning

The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

#criticism #freedom #greatest #greatest threat #threat

I grew up in an atmosphere where words were an integral part of culture. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

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Looking at faces of people, one gets the feeling there's a lot of work to be done. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

#faces #feeling #gets #looking #lot

The novel, for me, was an accident. I really don't consider myself a novelist. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

#consider #i #me #myself #novel

I ceased using words like optimism and pessimism a long time ago. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

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One thing I can tell you is this, that I am not a methodical writer. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

#i #i am #i can #methodical #one thing

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 happening right now as we are speaking. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

#being #brutally #constantly #down #forward

See, even despite pious statements to the contrary, much of the industrialized world has not yet come to terms with the recognition of the fallacy of what I call the strong man syndrome. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

#come #contrary #despite #even #fallacy