Wole Soyinka Quotes

The hand that dips into the bottom of the pot will eat the biggest snail.
The novel, for me, was an accident. I really don't consider myself a novelist.
There are different kinds of artists and very often, I'll be very frank with you, I wish I were a different kind.
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.
There's something about the theater which makes my fingertips tingle.
Very conscious of the fact that an effort was being made to destroy my mind, because I was deprived of books, deprived of any means of writing, deprived of human companionship. You never know how much you need it until you're deprived of it.
Well, first of all I'll say that I come alive best in theater.
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.
A tiger does not shout its tigritude, it acts.
A war, with its attendant human suffering, must, when that evil is unavoidable, be made to fragment more than buildings: It must shatter the foundations of thought and re-create. Only in this way does every individual share in the cataclysm and understand the purpose of sacrifice.
African film makers are scraping by on a mere pittance.
After the death of the sadistic dictator Gen. Sanni Abacha in 1998, Nigeria underwent a one-year transitional military administration headed by Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar, who uncharacteristically bowed out precisely on the promised date for military disengagement. Did the military truly disengage, however? No.
All religions accept that there is something called 'criminality.' And criminality cannot be excused by religious fervour.
An excessive amount of my time is taken with political involvement. It's unavoidable; that's my temperament.
An idyllic period of my existence was when I had a den attached to my home... a writing den, and no one had access to that unless they had their own special visa, applied for weeks in advance.
Art is solace; art is vision, and when I pick up a literary work, I am a consumer of literature for its own sake.
Before you're a writer, you're a citizen, a human being, and therefore the weapons of the citizen are at your disposal to use or not use.
Being the first black Nobel laureate, and the first African, the African world considered me personal property. I lost the remaining shreds of my anonymity, even to walk a few yards in London, Paris or Frankfurt without being stopped.
Books and all forms of writing have always been objects of terror to those who seek to suppress the truth.
Colonialism bred an innate arrogance, but when you undertake that sort of imperial adventure, that arrogance gives way to a feeling of accommodativeness. You take pride in your openness.
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Wole Soyinka
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13 July, 1934
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Nigeria
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