--- title: "4 Mythology Quotes By Wole Soyinka" description: "4 Mythology quotes by Wole Soyinka. Plus more from Wole Soyinka and more Mythology sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8d9/wole-soyinka-1587_degrees_i-rarely-use-mythology-for-its-own-sake_771171.jpg" --- > [I rarely use mythology for its own sake because, as a theatre person, the mythological figures are in fact humanity to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wole-soyinka/i-rarely-use-mythology-for-its-own-sake-because-as-a-theatre-person/) [Wole Soyinka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wole-soyinka/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8d9/wole-soyinka-1587_degrees_i-rarely-use-mythology-for-its-own-sake_771171.jpg) > [The gods in Yoruba mythology are not remote at all. They're benign, they're malign, they are mischievous, like Eshu for instance, tricksters,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wole-soyinka/the-gods-in-yoruba-mythology-are-not-remote-at-all-they-re-benign/) [Wole Soyinka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wole-soyinka/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f22/wole-soyinka-1587_benevolent_the-gods-in-yoruba-mythology-are-not-rem_886124.jpg) > [Mythology can be used, and has been used, even to re-state, you know, the very urgent problems of the world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wole-soyinka/mythology-can-be-used-and-has-been-used-even-to-re-state-you-know-the/) [Wole Soyinka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wole-soyinka/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/97e/wole-soyinka-1587_has-beens_mythology-can-be-used-and-has-been-used_2091033.jpg) > [You have the entire gamut of human experience captured in the mythology of the Yoruba. This is what makes the Yoruba mythology…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wole-soyinka/you-have-the-entire-gamut-of-human-experience-captured-in-the/) [Wole Soyinka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wole-soyinka/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/af3/wole-soyinka-1587_captured_you-have-the-entire-gamut-of-human-exper_3148653.jpg) ## Other authors on Mythology - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b014/author-joseph-campbell-53286.jpg) Joseph Campbell 46 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/mythology/joseph-campbell/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b020/author-rick-riordan-79077.jpg) Rick Riordan 26 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/mythology/rick-riordan/) - [Priya Ardis 21 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/mythology/priya-ardis/) - [Nely Cab 19 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/mythology/nely-cab/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b007/author-david-blackwell-27242.jpg) Amanda Bouchet 12 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/mythology/amanda-bouchet/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b016/author-madeline-miller-62511.jpg) Madeline Miller 11 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/mythology/madeline-miller/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b011/author-henry-david-thoreau-41473.jpg) Henry David Thoreau 9 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/mythology/henry-david-thoreau/) - [Charleston Parker 8 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/mythology/charleston-parker/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b024/author-werner-herzog-94806.jpg) Werner Herzog 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/mythology/werner-herzog/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b024/author-virgil-93863.jpg) Virgil 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/mythology/virgil/) - [Thea Harrison 5 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/mythology/thea-harrison/) - [Steve Sabol 5 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/mythology/steve-sabol/) ## More by Wole Soyinka > [Writers and intellectuals have a duty to humanity. It is to insist that the human entity remains the primary asset in overall development; thus,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wole-soyinka/writers-and-intellectuals-have-a-duty-to-humanity-it-is-to-insist/) [Wole Soyinka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wole-soyinka/) > [When I tried to create a new political party, which I stressed that this is not my party. I believe very much that there…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wole-soyinka/when-i-tried-to-create-a-new-political-party-which-i-stressed-that/) [Wole Soyinka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wole-soyinka/) > [Each time I think I've created time for myself, along comes a throwback to disrupt my private space.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wole-soyinka/each-time-i-think-i-ve-created-time-for-myself-along-comes-a/) [Wole Soyinka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wole-soyinka/) > [I began writing early - very, very early... I was already writing short stories for the radio and selling poems to poetry and art…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wole-soyinka/i-began-writing-early-very-very-early-i-was-already-writing-short/) [Wole Soyinka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wole-soyinka/) > [My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wole-soyinka/my-horizon-on-humanity-is-enlarged-by-reading-the-writers-of-poems/) [Wole Soyinka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wole-soyinka/) > [Under a dictatorship, a nation ceases to exist. All that remains is a fiefdom, a planet of slaves regimented by aliens from outer-space.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wole-soyinka/under-a-dictatorship-a-nation-ceases-to-exist-all-that-remains-is-a/) [Wole Soyinka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wole-soyinka/) > [The phenomenon of creativity, we know, is closely related to the ability to yoke together separate, and even seemingly incompatible, matrices.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wole-soyinka/the-phenomenon-of-creativity-we-know-is-closely-related-to-the/) [Wole Soyinka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wole-soyinka/) > [One, a mass movement from within, which, as you know, is constantly being put down brutally but which, again, regroups and moves forward as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wole-soyinka/one-a-mass-movement-from-within-which-as-you-know-is-constantly-being/) [Wole Soyinka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wole-soyinka/) > [One has to confront history honestly.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wole-soyinka/one-has-to-confront-history-honestly/) [Wole Soyinka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wole-soyinka/) > [We wasted a lot of creative energy in that immediate post colonial era, when there was a struggle between, you know, the Cold War…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wole-soyinka/we-wasted-a-lot-of-creative-energy-in-that-immediate-post-colonial/) [Wole Soyinka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wole-soyinka/) > [I have a kind of magnetic attraction to situations of violence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wole-soyinka/i-have-a-kind-of-magnetic-attraction-to-situations-of-violence/) [Wole Soyinka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wole-soyinka/) > [The Egba kingdom was one of the very last to be ceded to the British protectorate. It remained almost an independent entity within what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wole-soyinka/the-egba-kingdom-was-one-of-the-very-last-to-be-ceded-to-the-british/) [Wole Soyinka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wole-soyinka/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wole-soyinka/one-s-own-self-worth-is-tied-to-the-worth-of-the-community-to-which/) [Wole Soyinka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wole-soyinka/) > [I was born into a Christian household, in a parsonage in fact, so I grew up in sort of a missionary atmosphere but it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wole-soyinka/i-was-born-into-a-christian-household-in-a-parsonage-in-fact-so-i/) [Wole Soyinka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wole-soyinka/) > [The problem with literature, with writing, is that it works sometimes in terms of correction of social ills. Other times, it just does not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wole-soyinka/the-problem-with-literature-with-writing-is-that-it-works-sometimes/) [Wole Soyinka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wole-soyinka/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/mythology/wole-soyinka/#itemlist", "name": "4 Mythology Quotes By Wole Soyinka", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I rarely use mythology for its own sake because, as a theatre person, the mythological figures are in fact humanity to the ninth degree and Yoruba mythology in particular has fascination of being one of the most humanised mythologies in the world.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Wole Soyinka" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wole-soyinka/i-rarely-use-mythology-for-its-own-sake-because-as-a-theatre-person/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8d9/wole-soyinka-1587_degrees_i-rarely-use-mythology-for-its-own-sake_771171.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8d9/wole-soyinka-1587_degrees_i-rarely-use-mythology-for-its-own-sake_771171.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8d9/wole-soyinka-1587_degrees_i-rarely-use-mythology-for-its-own-sake_771171.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I rarely use mythology for its own sake because, as a theatre person, the mythological figures are in fact…” — Wole Soyinka", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The gods in Yoruba mythology are not remote at all. 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