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" The Nation of Islam provides an antidote in the United States to fundamentalist Islam - which is why individuals from America have to go abroad to find radical teachings. "

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" Those nations that say it's a crime to preach your religion are making a terrible mistake. All they're doing is driving underground other forms of spiritual intuitions and practices. "

Wole Soyinka

Mistake

Spiritual

Driving

" There's something about the theater which makes my fingertips tingle. "

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

Wole Soyinka

I Am

I Can

" I am a glutton for tranquility. "

Wole Soyinka

Tranquility

I Am

" An excessive amount of my time is taken with political involvement. It's unavoidable; that's my temperament. "

" 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 that you hold which in fact define your very existence. "

" Being the first black Nobel laureate, and the first African, the African world considered me personal property. I lost the remaining shreds of my anonymity, even to walk a few yards in London, Paris or Frankfurt without being stopped. "

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

" The problem with literature, with writing, is that it works sometimes in terms of correction of social ills. Other times, it just does not suffice. "

" 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. "

" One has a responsibility to clean up one's space and make it livable as far as one's own resources go. That includes not only material resources, but psychological resources: the commitment of time and a portion of your mind to something when you'd rather be doing something else. "

" 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. "

" Art is solace; art is vision, and when I pick up a literary work, I am a consumer of literature for its own sake. "

" No writer has a right to make that much money. Indeed, without diabolical assistance, no writer can. "

" After the death of the sadistic dictator Gen. Sanni Abacha in 1998, Nigeria underwent a one-year transitional military administration headed by Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar, who uncharacteristically bowed out precisely on the promised date for military disengagement. Did the military truly disengage, however? No. "

" Given the scale of trauma caused by the genocide, Rwanda has indicated that however thin the hope of a community can be, a hero always emerges. Although no one can dare claim that it is now a perfect state, and that no more work is needed, Rwanda has risen from the ashes as a model or truth and reconciliation. "

" History teaches us to beware of the excitation of the liberated and the injustices that often accompany their righteous thirst for justice. "

" Some of the greatest uprisings and consequent civil wars in Mexico have centered squarely on the ownership of land. "

" Trading and religion have always been aligned together in the history of the world, and especially on the African continent. "

" There is something really horrific for any human being who feels he is being consumed by other people. I'm talking about a writer's critics, who don't address what you've written, but want to probe into your existence and magnify the trivia of your life without any sense of humor, without any sense of context. "

" I like my peace and quiet whenever I can grab it. "

Wole Soyinka

I Can

Quiet

" 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 its mission of ethnic cleansing in the Sudan. "

" Military dictatorship, you can focus on it, you can fight it directly. It's a band of power-driven people. "

" Nigeria has had the misfortune - no, the fortune - of seeing the worst face of capitalism anywhere in Africa. The masses have seen it, they are disgusted, and they want an alternative. "

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

" But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That's all. "

" Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth. "

" No human is completely fearless. "

Wole Soyinka

Fearless

Human

" My understanding of the creative process is simply that all cultures and all concerns meet at a certain point, the human point in which everything is related to one another. That has been my creative experience. I never know who's influencing me at any time. "

Wole Soyinka

Process

Time

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