When they get this way there is nothing you can do. It's si… - Wole Soyinka

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When they get this way there is nothing you can do. It's simply hammering against a brick wall.

Wole Soyinka

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Akinwande Oluwole Soyinka (born 13 July 1934) is a Nigerian playwright, poet, novelist, essayist and pro-democracy activist. In 1986 he became the first African winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.

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Native Name: Akínwándé Olúwọlé Babátúndé Ṣóyíinká

Alternative Names: Akinwande Oluwole Soyinka • Akinwande Oluwole "Wole" Soyinka

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The totem, my final insult. The final taunt from the human pigs.

I said: "A tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he pounces". In other words: a tiger does not stand in the forest and say: "I am a tiger". When you pass where the tiger has walked before, you see the skeleton of the duiker, you know that some tigritude has been emanated there.

Ideas, like everything else, can be corrupted. Power is like that: it pollutes everything it touches.

When they get this way there is nothing you can do. It's simply hammering against a brick wall. - Wole Soyinka

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