The writer is the visionary of his people... He anticipates, he warns. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Looking at faces of people, one gets the feeling there's a lot of work to be done. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Writers who open up horizons for other people are performing a function every bit as important as a consciously politicized writer. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Some people think the Nobel Prize makes you bullet-proof. I never had that illusion. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
There is something really horrific for any human being who feels he is being consumed by other people. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Military dictatorship, you can focus on it, you can fight it directly. It's a band of power-driven people. — 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
The media must be used effectively to reach the masses. You have to find a new language in which to address the… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
I don't know any other way to live but to wake up every day armed with my convictions, not yielding them to… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
There's a lot of insincerity about the actions of our legislators; they create distractions - like this anti-gay law you alluded to… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Rwanda, which is one of the younger independent states in Africa, must be regarded as a model of how great human trauma… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
I think Nigerians got it wrong from independence as people became so conscious of the divisions because we wanted so much to… — 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
There is something really horrific for any human being who feels he is being consumed by other people. I'm talking about a… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
People say human nature is a very vague expression, people tend to say human nature is corruptible anyway and it comes from… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Only 4 sets of people can vote for the PDP: (1) those who are intellectually blind; (2) those who are blinded by… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Nigeria is so peculiar and dramatic. Even talking about the potentials before we talk about the negativities, Nigeria is a nation for… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
When you start a political party, you are creating space for yourself. So many people were shocked when they realized that I… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Well, some people say I'm pessimistic because I recognize the eternal cycle of evil. All I say is, look at the history… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
The British inclined more towards the feudal mentality, the feudal structures rather than the more radical progressive elements who would re-shape society… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
I grew up with a very strong sense of what is just and what is not or, to put it this way,… — 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
