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13 Wole Soyinka Quotes & Sayings
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13 Wole Soyinka Quotes & Sayings
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Born: 13 July 1934 |
Playwright
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Poet
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Essayist
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Romance is the sweetening of the soul With fragrance offered by the stricken heart.
Wole Soyinka
Soul
Heart
Romance
Offered
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But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That's why I call it the most social of the various art forms.
Wole Soyinka
Theater
Nature
Text
Images
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Only 4 sets of people can vote for the PDP: (1) those who are intellectually blind; (2) those who are blinded by ethnicity; (3) those who are blinded by corruption and therefore afraid of the unknown, should power change hands; and finally (4) those who are suffering from a combination of the above terminal sicknesses.
Wole Soyinka
People
PDP
Vote
Corruption
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Wole Soyinka
Tiger
Shout
Tigritude
Acts
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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 in which it's being staged; then the audience, the nature of the audience, the quality of the audience.
Wole Soyinka
Audience
Dynamic
Quality
Environment
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No man beholds his mother's womb Yet who denies it's there? Coiled To the navel of the world is that Endless cord that links us all To the great Origin. If I lose my way. The trailing cord will bring me to the roots.
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Man
Womb
Mother
Denies
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Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact; can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom.
Wole Soyinka
Truth
Antithesis
Antagonism
Society
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Wole Soyinka
Glutton
Tranquility
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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 pride in your openness.
Wole Soyinka
Colonialism
Bred
Innate
Imperial
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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.
Wole Soyinka
Believe
Learning
Best
Process
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Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.
Wole Soyinka
Power
Domination
Control
Selective
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But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That's all.
Wole Soyinka
Ultimate
Lesson
Just
Write
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One thing I can tell you is this, that I am not a methodical writer.
Wole Soyinka
Writer
Thing
Methodical
You
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Wole Soyinka Quotes & Sayings