Nature of man Quotes 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,…

— 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…

— Wole Soyinka

Each time I think I've created time for myself, along comes a throwback to disrupt my private space.

— 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…

— 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…

— 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.

— Wole Soyinka

The phenomenon of creativity, we know, is closely related to the ability to yoke together separate, and even seemingly incompatible, matrices.

— 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…

— Wole Soyinka

One has to confront history honestly.

— 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…

— Wole Soyinka

I have a kind of magnetic attraction to situations of violence.

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Wole Soyinka