You always assume for some strange reason that you need three meals a day. — 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
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
Before you're a writer, you're a citizen, a human being, and therefore the weapons of the citizen are at your disposal to… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
You go to conferences, and your fellow African intellectuals - and even heads of state - they all say: 'Nigeria is a… — 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
My father was a schoolteacher, and so I had the advantage of both western educational instruction in the school, as well as… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
One has a responsibility to clean up one's space and make it livable as far as one's own resources go. That includes… — 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
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
