Wole Soyinka Quotes

Writers throughout the ages have one weapon, which is literature, but they also have their responsibilities as a citizen when literature does not seem to suffice. I mean, they are not mutually exclusive. One continues to write anyway but if you are called out to demonstrate, if people are being killed in the streets, it's hardly the moment to go for your pen and paper, you know, help in one way or the other.

Wole Soyinka

Quotes to Explore

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

e. e. cummings
- Learning
- Dance
- Stars
I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go. You had three days of vocal training and performed your song at the end.

Naomi Scott
- Home
- Song
- Community
When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.

Ha-Joon Chang
- Things
- Changes
- Impact
Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all act, we're all actors, we all know the same thing. The only thing that separates us is experience.

Vincent D'Onofrio
- Experience
- Same
- Mystery
I actually started playing in little cafes around New York, and I have a lot of good friends of mine who are musicians who are struggling in New York.

Oscar Isaac
- Good
- Friends
- Musicians
The train's always full of football fans going up to see matches. Oh, they make sure I hear their points of view all right. They all want to have their say about their team, and make their opinions known.

Gary Lineker
- Up
- Team
- Football