Wole Soyinka Quotes

I'm not fond of biographies. I don't like writing about myself.
I'm not sure I'm trying to communicate a message. I'm just trying to be part of the movement away from the unacceptable present.
I've always written plays for the purpose of getting something out of my system.
I've done a lot of guerrilla theater in my time.
If African film makers had one-tenth the amount commanded by film makers the world over - even the amount used by so-called shoestring film makers - I think we would see quite an explosion of African films on the world scene.
In Africa, those who have money - businessmen and banks - do not believe in film.
In the world of literature, I see prizes as more of a duty to the craft itself, rather than as something for the individual.
Just like birds, hunters know no borders.
Military dictatorship, you can focus on it, you can fight it directly. It's a band of power-driven people.
My father was a schoolteacher, and so I had the advantage of both western educational instruction in the school, as well as what you might call the process of imbibing the traditional processes of education instruction around me.
My understanding of the creative process is simply that all cultures and all concerns meet at a certain point, the human point in which everything is related to one another. That has been my creative experience. I never know who's influencing me at any time.
Nigeria has had the misfortune - no, the fortune - of seeing the worst face of capitalism anywhere in Africa. The masses have seen it, they are disgusted, and they want an alternative.
No human is completely fearless.
No writer has a right to make that much money. Indeed, without diabolical assistance, no writer can.
One has a responsibility to clean up one's space and make it livable as far as one's own resources go. That includes not only material resources, but psychological resources: the commitment of time and a portion of your mind to something when you'd rather be doing something else.
One has to confront history honestly.
One's own self-worth is tied to the worth of the community to which one belongs, which is intimately connected to humanity in general. What happens in Darfur becomes an assault on my own community, and on me as an individual. That's what the human family is all about.
Politics, I believe, is a full-time occupation.
Probably to me the greatest singer, female voice, is Billie Holiday. And one of the most moving for me, I don't know why - maybe it's nostalgia, maybe because my life is one of constant partying, whatever.
Rwanda, which is one of the younger independent states in Africa, must be regarded as a model of how great human trauma can be transformed to commence true reconstruction of people. Human trauma can lead to stunted growth and mass withdrawal.
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Wole Soyinka
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13 July, 1934
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Nigeria
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