Wole Soyinka Quotes
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Writers who open up horizons for other people are performing a function every bit as important as a consciously politicized writer.
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My understanding of the creative process is simply that all cultures and all concerns meet at a certain point, the human point in which everything is related to one another. That has been my creative experience.
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I think the epicentre of terrorism whether you call it cesspit or whatever you want to call it, shift, if you asked me a while ago, I would have said Somalia, Somalia has quietened a bit - and I think the epicentre right now is in Northern Nigeria.
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As I grew older and more mature, I've been able to move beyond the immediate response of violence to a projection of the pragmatic, political consequences of that violence. So it's an effort to attain equilibrium.
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Writers - human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.
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We live in the real world - we live within a certain history of the plague that has landed on us.
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Even when I'm writing plays I enjoy having company and mentally I think of that company as the company I'm writing for.
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Some of us – poets are not exactly poets. We live sometimes – beyond the word.
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But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That's why I call it the most social of the various art forms.
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Romance is the sweetening of the soul With fragrance offered by the stricken heart.
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The youth should come together to challenge the status quo. They must not give up.
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I grew up in an atmosphere where words were an integral part of culture.
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I never hesitated, as a student, in embracing the necessity of violence. In South Africa, I didn't just accept it; I looked forward to it as a mission.
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Well, first of all I'll say that I come alive best in theater.
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I am a glutton for tranquility.
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Only 4 sets of people can vote for the PDP: (1) those who are intellectually blind; (2) those who are blinded by ethnicity; (3) those who are blinded by corruption and therefore afraid of the unknown, should power change hands; and finally (4) those who are suffering from a combination of the above terminal sicknesses.