Wole Soyinka Quotes

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 start writing. That I've never understood.

The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.

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

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

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 its mission of ethnic cleansing in the Sudan.

I take friendship very seriously.

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

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

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

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

Under a dictatorship, a nation ceases to exist. All that remains is a fiefdom, a planet of slaves regimented by aliens from outer space.

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

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.

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

For the fire consumes all but the arsonist.

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

For now, let us simply observe that the assault on human dignity is one of the prime goals of the visitation of fear, a prelude to the domination of the mind and the triumph of power