--- title: "12 Way Quotes By Wole Soyinka" description: "12 Way quotes by Wole Soyinka. Plus more from Wole Soyinka and more Way sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f2e/wole-soyinka-1587_depression_i-found-when-i-left-that-there-were-othe_2979450.jpg" --- > [I found, when I left, that there were others who felt the same way. We'd meet, they'd come and seek me out,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wole-soyinka/i-found-when-i-left-that-there-were-others-who-felt-the-same-way-we-d/) [Wole Soyinka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wole-soyinka/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f2e/wole-soyinka-1587_depression_i-found-when-i-left-that-there-were-othe_2979450.jpg) > [A war, with its attendant human suffering, must, when that evil is unavoidable, be made to fragment more than buildings: It must…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wole-soyinka/a-war-with-its-attendant-human-suffering-must-when-that-evil-is/) [Wole Soyinka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wole-soyinka/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d61/wole-soyinka-1587_attendant_a-war-with-its-attendant-human-suffering_2826388.jpg) > [Religion has really spawned some monsters. It always has, historically. Go all the way back to the Inquisition, you know, the Crusades,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wole-soyinka/religion-has-really-spawned-some-monsters-it-always-has-historically/) [Wole Soyinka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wole-soyinka/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/629/wole-soyinka-1587_crusades_religion-has-really-spawned-some-monster_1281993.jpg) > [I don’t know any other way to live but to wake up everyday armed with my convictions, not yielding them to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wole-soyinka/i-don-t-know-any-other-way-to-live-but-to-wake-up-everyday-armed-with/) [Wole Soyinka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wole-soyinka/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7a8/wole-soyinka-1587_conviction_i-don-t-know-any-other-way-to-live-but-t_2032007.jpg) > [There's no way to escape the culture that has evolved, from which we ourselves have evolved. Naturally, we stress it, break it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wole-soyinka/there-s-no-way-to-escape-the-culture-that-has-evolved-from-which-we/) [Wole Soyinka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wole-soyinka/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3f5/wole-soyinka-1587_break_there-s-no-way-to-escape-the-culture-tha_1365283.jpg) > [No man beholds his mother's womb Yet who denies it's there? Coiled To the navel of the world is that Endless cord…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wole-soyinka/no-man-beholds-his-mother-s-womb-yet-who-denies-it-s-there-coiled-to/) [Wole Soyinka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wole-soyinka/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a59/wole-soyinka-1587_cords_no-man-beholds-his-mother-s-womb-yet-who_1874650.jpg) > [I don't know any other way to live but to wake up every day armed with my convictions, not yielding them to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wole-soyinka/i-don-t-know-any-other-way-to-live-but-to-wake-up-every-day-armed/) [Wole Soyinka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wole-soyinka/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6a1/wole-soyinka-1587_any_i-don-t-know-any-other-way-to-live-but-t_2165067.jpg) > [Don't feel that you have to tailor your literature a particular way to please any school of ideology. There will emerge in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wole-soyinka/don-t-feel-that-you-have-to-tailor-your-literature-a-particular-way/) [Wole Soyinka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wole-soyinka/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4a7/wole-soyinka-1587_books_don-t-feel-that-you-have-to-tailor-your_2767898.jpg) > [Writers throughout the ages have one weapon, which is literature, but they also have their responsibilities as a citizen when literature does…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wole-soyinka/writers-throughout-the-ages-have-one-weapon-which-is-literature-but/) [Wole Soyinka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wole-soyinka/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6a3/wole-soyinka-1587_age_writers-throughout-the-ages-have-one-wea_960071.jpg) > [Colonialism bred an innate arrogance, but when you undertake that sort of imperial adventure, that arrogance gives way to a feeling of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wole-soyinka/colonialism-bred-an-innate-arrogance-but-when-you-undertake-that-sort/) [Wole Soyinka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wole-soyinka/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f5b/wole-soyinka-1587_adventure_colonialism-bred-an-innate-arrogance-but_1149457.jpg) > [I grew up with a very strong sense of what is just and what is not or, to put it this way,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wole-soyinka/i-grew-up-with-a-very-strong-sense-of-what-is-just-and-what-is-not-or/) [Wole Soyinka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wole-soyinka/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/511/wole-soyinka-1587_division_i-grew-up-with-a-very-strong-sense-of-wh_2932396.jpg) > [I know there are writers who get up every morning and sit by their typewriter or word processor or pad of paper…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wole-soyinka/i-know-there-are-writers-who-get-up-every-morning-and-sit-by-their/) [Wole Soyinka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wole-soyinka/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fdf/wole-soyinka-1587_crafts_i-know-there-are-writers-who-get-up-ever_3045749.jpg) ## Other authors on Way ## 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/way/wole-soyinka/#itemlist", "name": "12 Way Quotes By Wole Soyinka", "numberOfItems": 12, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I found, when I left, that there were others who felt the same way. We'd meet, they'd come and seek me out, we'd talk about the future. 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