Wole Soyinka Quotes

And gradually they're beginning to recognize the fact that there's nothing more secure than a democratic, accountable, and participatory form of government. But it's sunk in only theoretically, it has not yet sunk in completely in practical terms.
And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others.
Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.
But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That's all.
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.
But when you're deprived of it for a lengthy period then you value human companionship. But you have to survive and so you devise all kinds of mental exercises and it's amazing.
Even when I'm writing plays I enjoy having company and mentally I think of that company as the company I'm writing for.
I consider the process of gestation just as important as when you're actually sitting down putting words to the paper.
I don't really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident.
I found, when I left, that there were others who felt the same way. We'd meet, they'd come and seek me out, we'd talk about the future. And I found that their depression and pessimism was every bit as acute as mine.
I grew up in an atmosphere where words were an integral part of culture.
I think that feeling that if one believed absolutely in any cause, then one must have the confidence, the self-certainty, to go through with that particular course of action.
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.
Looking at faces of people, one gets the feeling there's a lot of work to be done.
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.
One thing I can tell you is this, that I am not a methodical writer.
One, a mass movement from within, which, as you know, is constantly being put down brutally but which, again, regroups and moves forward as is happening right now as we are speaking.
Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.
See, even despite pious statements to the contrary, much of the industrialized world has not yet come to terms with the recognition of the fallacy of what I call the strong man syndrome.
The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.
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Wole Soyinka
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13 July, 1934
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Nigeria
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