Wole Soyinka Quotes
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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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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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If man cannot, what god dare claim perfection?
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You accept whoever you are interacting with, directly, or indirectly.
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My definition of slavery is the deprivation of human volition, any form of relationship between two peoples which is based on the deprivation of volition of one side.
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I grew up in an atmosphere where words were an integral part of culture.
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The youth should come together to challenge the status quo. They must not give up.
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Each time I think Ive created time for myself, along comes a throwback to disrupt my private space.
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Looking at faces of people, one gets the feeling there's a lot of work to be done.
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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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Writers - human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.
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As a global citizen, I sometimes feel like denying my identity.
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Well, first of all I'll say that I come alive best in theater.
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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.