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
There's no way to escape the culture that has evolved, from which we ourselves have evolved. Naturally, we stress it, break it… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
I found, when I left, that there were others who felt the same way. We'd meet, they'd come and seek me out,… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
A war, with its attendant human suffering, must, when that evil is unavoidable, be made to fragment more than buildings: It must… — 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
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
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
Colonialism bred an innate arrogance, but when you undertake that sort of imperial adventure, that arrogance gives way to a feeling of… — 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
No man beholds his mother's womb Yet who denies it's there? Coiled To the navel of the world is that Endless cord… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Don't feel that you have to tailor your literature a particular way to please any school of ideology. There will emerge in… — 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
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
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
Each time I think I've created time for myself, along comes a throwback to disrupt my private space. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
