"Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth."
-Wole Soyinka
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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
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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
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"My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing at all to do with a volatile human condition or struggle or whatever. It enriches me as a human being."
-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."
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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
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"Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie."
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