Wole Soyinka Quotes

The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.

Power, of course. The primitive fear of being controlled. It does not matter whether it is an invasi...

I grew up in an atmosphere where words were an integral part of culture.

There is only one home to the life of a river-mussel; there is only one home to the life of a tortoi...

I'm not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning, put a piece of paper in thei...

Art is solace; art is vision, and when I pick up a literary work, I am a consumer of literature for ...

And gradually they're beginning to recognize the fact that there's nothing more secure than a democr...

I take friendship very seriously.

The fault, of course, is not in religion, but in the fanatic of every religion. Fanaticism remains t...

My understanding of the creative process is simply that all cultures and all concerns meet at a cert...

Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.

The Sudanese government has been playing games with the world, with the Africa Union, in particular,...

Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.

So, once again, back to the question - just what IS power?Is it perhaps no more than a deadly mutati...

There is something really horrific for any human being who feels he is being consumed by other peopl...

There's no way to escape the culture that has evolved, from which we ourselves have evolved. Natural...

Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress truth.

The arrogant elimination of the Djaouts of our world must nerve us to pursue our own combative doctr...

Sadly, it is within the religious domain that the phenomenon of rhetorical hysteria takes its most d...

Romance is the sweetening of the soulWith fragrance offered by the stricken heart.

My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to ...

Under a dictatorship, a nation ceases to exist. All that remains is a fiefdom, a planet of slaves re...

Everything is linked,' said an enraptured Baremboim on stage; 'everyone is linked, all our actions h...

For the fire consumes all but the arsonist.

In one form or the other, the quest for human dignity has proved to be one of the most propulsive el...

the very least we can live with is an agreement that does not reduce us to slaves of imposition, but...

I like my peace and quiet whenever I can grab it.

I'm an Afro-realist. I take what comes, and I do my best to affect what is unacceptable in society.

Given the scale of trauma caused by the genocide, Rwanda has indicated that however thin the hope of...

I began writing early - very, very early... I was already writing short stories for the radio and se...

Each time I think I've created time for myself, along comes a throwback to disrupt my private space.

For now, let us simply observe that the assault on human dignity is one of the prime goals of the vi...

And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of oth...

One has a responsibility to clean up one's space and make it livable as far as one's own resources g...

I found, when I left, that there were others who felt the same way. We'd meet, they'd come and seek ...

But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of commu...