--- title: "4 Nobel Quotes By Wole Soyinka" description: "4 Nobel quotes by Wole Soyinka. Plus more from Wole Soyinka and more Nobel sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/16e/wole-soyinka-1587_had_some-people-think-the-nobel-prize-makes_1292692.jpg" --- > [Some people think the Nobel Prize makes you bullet-proof. I never had that illusion.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wole-soyinka/some-people-think-the-nobel-prize-makes-you-bullet-proof-i-never-had/) [Wole Soyinka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wole-soyinka/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/16e/wole-soyinka-1587_had_some-people-think-the-nobel-prize-makes_1292692.jpg) > [Being the first black Nobel laureate, and the first African, the African world considered me personal property. I lost the remaining shreds…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wole-soyinka/being-the-first-black-nobel-laureate-and-the-first-african-the/) [Wole Soyinka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wole-soyinka/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/315/wole-soyinka-1587_anonymity_being-the-first-black-nobel-laureate-and_1511307.jpg) > [Alfred Nobel regretted that his invention, dynamite, was converted to degrading use, hence his creation of the Nobel Prize, as the humanist…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wole-soyinka/alfred-nobel-regretted-that-his-invention-dynamite-was-converted-to/) [Wole Soyinka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wole-soyinka/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/60d/wole-soyinka-1587_creation_alfred-nobel-regretted-that-his-inventio_2647261.jpg) > [Of course I've enjoyed having the Nobel Prize, the prestige that goes along with it, the money that came with it in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wole-soyinka/of-course-i-ve-enjoyed-having-the-nobel-prize-the-prestige-that-goes/) [Wole Soyinka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wole-soyinka/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f09/wole-soyinka-1587_books_of-course-i-ve-enjoyed-having-the-nobel_3066999.jpg) ## Other authors on Nobel - [David Bennun 11 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/nobel/david-bennun/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b018/author-naguib-mahfouz-69973.jpg) Naguib Mahfouz 8 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/nobel/naguib-mahfouz/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b020/author-richard-dawkins-78503.jpg) Richard Dawkins 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/nobel/richard-dawkins/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b008/author-doris-lessing-30223.jpg) Doris Lessing 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/nobel/doris-lessing/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b014/author-john-steinbeck-52314.jpg) John Steinbeck 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/nobel/john-steinbeck/) - [Ahmed H. Zewail 5 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/nobel/ahmed-h-zewail/) ## 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/nobel/wole-soyinka/#itemlist", "name": "4 Nobel Quotes By Wole Soyinka", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Some people think the Nobel Prize makes you bullet-proof. 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