"Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth."
-Wole Soyinka
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"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
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"Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie."
-Wole Soyinka
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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
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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
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"Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie."
-Wole Soyinka
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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
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"Tis always morning somewhere in the world."
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