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Wole Soyinka Facts
Wole Soyinka Is Born On July 13, 1934
Wole Soyinka Is Born In Abeokouta, Nigeria
Wole Soyinka Nationality Is Nigerian
Wole Soyinka Zodiac Sign Is Cancer
Wole Soyinka Zodiac Symbol Is Crab
Wole Soyinka Chinese Zodiac Element Is Yang Wood
Wole Soyinka Chinese Zodiac Animal Is Dog
Wole Soyinka Occupation Is Dramatist
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Wole Soyinka Quotes
And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others. - Wole Soyinka Quotes
And gradually theyre beginning to recognize the fact that theres nothing more secure than a democratic, accountable, and participatory form of government. But its sunk in only theoretically, it has not yet sunk in completely in practical terms. - Wole Soyinka Quotes
Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth. - Wole Soyinka Quotes
But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. Thats all. - Wole Soyinka Quotes
But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. Thats why I call it the most social of the various art forms. - Wole Soyinka Quotes
But when youre deprived of it for a lengthy period then you value human companionship. But you have to survive and so you devise all kinds of mental exercises and its amazing. - Wole Soyinka Quotes
Even when Im writing plays I enjoy having company and mentally I think of that company as the company Im writing for. - Wole Soyinka Quotes
I consider the process of gestation just as important as when youre actually sitting down putting words to the paper. - Wole Soyinka Quotes
I dont really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident. - Wole Soyinka Quotes
I found, when I left, that there were others who felt the same way. Wed meet, theyd come and seek me out, wed talk about the future. And I found that their depression and pessimism was every bit as acute as mine. - Wole Soyinka Quotes
I grew up in an atmosphere where words were an integral part of culture. - Wole Soyinka Quotes
I think that feeling that if one believed absolutely in any cause, then one must have the confidence, the self-certainty, to go through with that particular course of action. - Wole Soyinka Quotes
I was placed in solitary confinement for a year and ten months out of the period in which I stayed in prison, which was just over two years. - Wole Soyinka Quotes
Im 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 Ive never understood. - Wole Soyinka Quotes
Its been difficult, and without a question Ive had moments when I just wondered whether were not really pursuing an impossible ideal. - Wole Soyinka Quotes
Looking at faces of people, one gets the feeling theres a lot of work to be done. - Wole Soyinka Quotes
My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing at all to do with a volatile human condition or struggle or whatever. It enriches me as a human being. - Wole Soyinka Quotes
One thing I can tell you is this, that I am not a methodical writer. - Wole Soyinka Quotes
One, a mass movement from within, which, as you know, is constantly being put down brutally but which, again, regroups and moves forward as is happening right now as we are speaking. - Wole Soyinka Quotes
Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie. - Wole Soyinka Quotes
See, even despite pious statements to the contrary, much of the industrialized world has not yet come to terms with the recognition of the fallacy of what I call the strong man syndrome. - Wole Soyinka Quotes
The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism. - Wole Soyinka Quotes
The hand that dips into the bottom of the pot will eat the biggest snail. - Wole Soyinka Quotes
The novel, for me, was an accident. I really dont consider myself a novelist. - Wole Soyinka Quotes
There are different kinds of artists and very often, Ill be very frank with you, I wish I were a different kind. - Wole Soyinka Quotes
Theres a kind of dynamic quality about theater and that dynamic quality expresses itself in relation to, first of all, the environment in which its being staged; then the audience, the nature of the audience, the quality of the audience. - Wole Soyinka Quotes
Theres something about the theater which makes my fingertips tingle. - Wole Soyinka Quotes
Very conscious of the fact that an effort was being made to destroy my mind, because I was deprived of books, deprived of any means of writing, deprived of human companionship. You never know how much you need it until youre deprived of it. - Wole Soyinka Quotes
Well, first of all Ill say that I come alive best in theater. - Wole Soyinka Quotes
Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom. - Wole Soyinka Quotes
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