THIS 10 AMAZING QUOTES FROM PROFESSOR WOLE SHOYINKA WILL CHANGE YOUR THINKING

 
 
 

• ·         A tiger does not shout its tigritude, it acts.

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

• ·         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.

• ·         Human life has meaning only to that degree and as long as it is lived in the service of humanity.

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• ·         One's own self-worth is tied to the worth of the community to which one belongs, which is intimately connected to humanity in general. What happens in Darfur becomes an assault on my own community, and on me as an individual. That's what the human family is all about.

• ·         The hand that dips into the bottom of the pot will eat the biggest snail.

• ·         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.

• ·         All religions accept that there is something called 'criminality.' And criminality cannot be excused by religious fervor.

• Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.

 

Seven is the magic figure, because that's a symbolic figure of my favorite deity, Ogun.
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• Seven is the magic figure, because that's a symbolic figure of my favorite deity, Ogun

Seven is the magic figure, because that's a symbolic figure of my favorite deity, Ogun.
Read more at: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/w/wole_soyinka.html