Dramatist Quotes

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.
Each time I think I've created time for myself, along comes a throwback to disrupt my private space.
Education is lacking in most of those who pontificate.
England is the breeding ground of fundamentalist Muslims. Its social logic is to allow all religions to preach openly. But this is illogic, because none of the other religions preach apocalyptic violence. And yet England allows it.
For me, justice is the prime condition of humanity.
Given the scale of trauma caused by the genocide, Rwanda has indicated that however thin the hope of a community can be, a hero always emerges. Although no one can dare claim that it is now a perfect state, and that no more work is needed, Rwanda has risen from the ashes as a model or truth and reconciliation.
History teaches us to beware of the excitation of the liberated and the injustices that often accompany their righteous thirst for justice.
Human life has meaning only to that degree and as long as it is lived in the service of humanity.
I am a glutton for tranquility.
I am convinced that Nigeria would have been a more highly developed country without the oil. I wished we'd never smelled the fumes of petroleum.
I began writing early - very, very early... I was already writing short stories for the radio and selling poems to poetry and art festivals; I was involved in school plays; I wrote essays, so there was no definite moment when I said, 'Now I'm a writer.' I've always been a writer.
I cannot belong to a nation which permits such barbarities as stoning to death and amputation - I don't care what religion it is.
I ceased using words like optimism and pessimism a long time ago.
I don't have the sort of temperament that submits to Christianity or Islam.
I don't know any other way to live but to wake up every day armed with my convictions, not yielding them to the threat of danger and to the power and force of people who might despise me.
I have a kind of magnetic attraction to situations of violence.
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