I just say, “Follow your instincts.” Don’t feel you have to follow the paths of others, because you may not be temperamentally fitted for it. And so you’ll just harm yourself and your cause and others. But just follow your instinct, and don’t ever pretend to be what you’re not.
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Wole Soyinka
Playwright, poet and novelist; Nobel laureate in Literature, 1986
Nigeria · b. 1934
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Wole Soyinka is a Nigerian playwright, poet and essayist and the first African writer to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, awarded in 1986. He was imprisoned for twenty-two months, much of it in solitary confinement, during the Nigerian civil war.
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