Best Wole Soyinka Sayings
- There's a kind of dynamic quality about theater and that dynamic quality expresses itself in relation to, first of all, the environment in which it's… All
- Very conscious of the fact that an effort was being made to destroy my mind, because I was deprived of books, deprived of any means… Any
- The novel, for me, was an accident. I really don't consider myself a novelist. Accident
- I'm not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning, put a piece of paper in their typewriter machine and… Bedtime
- Some of us – poets are not exactly poets. We live sometimes – beyond the word. Beyond
- Well, some people say I'm pessimistic because I recognize the eternal cycle of evil. All I say is, look at the history of mankind right… All
- The man dies in all those that keep silent. All
- Well, I think the Yoruba gods are truthful. Truthful in the sense that i consider religion and the construct of deities simply an extension of… Brought
- Romance is the sweetening of the soul With fragrance offered by the stricken heart. Fragrance
- The arrogant elimination of the Djaouts of our world must nerve us to pursue our own combative doctrine, namely: that peaceful cohabitation on this planet… Absolute
- I think that feeling that if one believed absolutely in any cause, then one must have the confidence, the self-certainty, to go through with that… Absolutely
- Culture is a matrix of infinite possibilities and choices. From within the same culture matrix we can extract arguments and strategies for the degradation and… Argument
- The Sudanese government has been playing games with the world, with the Africa Union, in particular, have been playing for time in order to conclude… Africa
- I am a glutton for tranquility. Glutton
- There is not a special imposition on writers to be activists. All that does is encourage writers to write propaganda. Propaganda can be written by… Activists
- I have a kind of magnetic attraction to situations of violence. Attraction
- Human life has meaning only to that degree and as long as it is lived in the service of humanity. Degree
- In Africa, those who have money - businessmen and banks - do not believe in film. Africa
- If African film makers had one-tenth the amount commanded by film makers the world over - even the amount used by so-called shoestring film makers… African
- Education is lacking in most of those who pontificate. Education
- Rwanda, which is one of the younger independent states in Africa, must be regarded as a model of how great human trauma can be transformed… Africa
- Given the scale of trauma caused by the genocide, Rwanda has indicated that however thin the hope of a community can be, a hero always… Always Emerges
- A war, with its attendant human suffering, must, when that evil is unavoidable, be made to fragment more than buildings: It must shatter the foundations… Attendant
- The scales of reckoning with mortality are never evenly weighted, alas, and thus it is on the shoulders of the living that the burden of… Alas
- The Nation of Islam provides an antidote in the United States to fundamentalist Islam - which is why individuals from America have to go abroad… Abroad
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