In the world of literature, I see prizes as more of a duty to the craft itself, rather than as something for… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
We live in a materialist world, and materialism appeals so strongly to humanity, no matter where. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Trading and religion have always been aligned together in the history of the world, and especially on the African continent. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Mythology can be used, and has been used, even to re-state, you know, the very urgent problems of the world. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
We live in the real world - we live within a certain history of the plague that has landed on us. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Next to the commodities of corruption, and religion, however, Nigeria is the world capital of rumour mongering. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Intolerance has become, I think, the reigning ideology of the world today, the intolerance versus intolerance and it's taken on lethal proportions. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
If African film makers had one-tenth the amount commanded by film makers the world over - even the amount used by so-called… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
It's my duty to fight those who have chosen to belong to the party of death, those who say they receive their… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Being the first black Nobel laureate, and the first African, the African world considered me personal property. I lost the remaining shreds… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
The Sudanese government has been playing games with the world, with the Africa Union, in particular, have been playing for time in… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
I rarely use mythology for its own sake because, as a theatre person, the mythological figures are in fact humanity to the… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
No man beholds his mother's womb Yet who denies it's there? Coiled To the navel of the world is that Endless cord… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
See, even despite pious statements to the contrary, much of the industrialized world has not yet come to terms with the recognition… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
There is only one home to the life of a river-mussel; there is only one home to the life of a tortoise;… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
The arrogant elimination of the Djaouts of our world must nerve us to pursue our own combative doctrine, namely: that peaceful cohabitation… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Writers and intellectuals have a duty to humanity. It is to insist that the human entity remains the primary asset in overall development; thus,… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share
When I tried to create a new political party, which I stressed that this is not my party. I believe very much that there… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share
Each time I think I've created time for myself, along comes a throwback to disrupt my private space. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share
I began writing early - very, very early... I was already writing short stories for the radio and selling poems to poetry and art… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share
My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share
Under a dictatorship, a nation ceases to exist. All that remains is a fiefdom, a planet of slaves regimented by aliens from outer-space. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share
The phenomenon of creativity, we know, is closely related to the ability to yoke together separate, and even seemingly incompatible, matrices. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share
One, a mass movement from within, which, as you know, is constantly being put down brutally but which, again, regroups and moves forward as… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share
We wasted a lot of creative energy in that immediate post colonial era, when there was a struggle between, you know, the Cold War… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share
The Egba kingdom was one of the very last to be ceded to the British protectorate. It remained almost an independent entity within what… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share
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… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share
I was born into a Christian household, in a parsonage in fact, so I grew up in sort of a missionary atmosphere but it… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share
The problem with literature, with writing, is that it works sometimes in terms of correction of social ills. Other times, it just does not… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share
