We wasted a lot of creative energy in that immediate post colonial era, when there was a struggle between, you know, the… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
I know there are other writers who sit down religiously every morning, they take their espresso, they put a clean sheet of… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
I believe that prizes are useful things for the disciplines, whether we are talking about chemistry or we're talking... It motivates, it,… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Governance can dig itself into a huge hole and not even know it's in there. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
The gods in Yoruba mythology are not remote at all. They're benign, they're malign, they are mischievous, like Eshu for instance, tricksters,… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Writers throughout the ages have one weapon, which is literature, but they also have their responsibilities as a citizen when literature does… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
I said: "A tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he pounces". In other words: a tiger does not stand in the forest… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Religion has really spawned some monsters. It always has, historically. Go all the way back to the Inquisition, you know, the Crusades,… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
The very function of creativity, of the elaboration of the human condition only enlarges the human spirit and, I mean, as a… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Intolerance has always been with us, you know. The moment you have ideology, we have intolerance, whether it's the secular ideology or,… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
I don’t know any other way to live but to wake up everyday armed with my convictions, not yielding them to the… — 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
I come alive when I have assisted in bringing out the printed word on the stage, you know, and I enjoy directing… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
With theatre, you can interpret the most complex play on stage for it have meaning to an audience because you're dealing in… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
I never know who's influencing me at any time. I mean, I can take a play by Brecht and adapt it, I'm… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Everybody knows that fraternities are a normal culture in all colleges. It exists in all colleges. President Clinton was a member of… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
I know there are writers who get up every morning and sit by their typewriter or word processor or pad of paper… — 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 Image
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 Image
Each time I think I've created time for myself, along comes a throwback to disrupt my private space. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
