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Colonialism bred an innate arrogance, but when you undertake that sort of imperial adventure, that arrogance gives way to a feeling of accommodativeness. You take pride in your openness.
- Wole Soyinka
#Arrogance
#Colonialism
#Pride
#Way
#Your
Each time I think I've created time for myself, along comes a throwback to disrupt my private space.
- Wole Soyinka
#Along
#Myself
#Space
#Think
#Time
I began writing early - very, very early... I was already writing short stories for the radio and selling poems to poetry and art festivals; I was involved in school plays; I wrote essays, so there was no definite moment when I said, 'Now I'm a writer.' I've always been a writer.
- Wole Soyinka
#Art
#Moment
#Poetry
#Radio
#School
The hand that dips into the bottom of the pot will eat the biggest snail.
- Wole Soyinka
#Bottom
#Eat
#Pot
#Snail
#Will
Human life has meaning only to that degree and as long as it is lived in the service of humanity.
- Wole Soyinka
#Humanity
#Life
#Long
#Meaning
#Service
In Africa, those who have money - businessmen and banks - do not believe in film.
- Wole Soyinka
#Africa
#Believe
#Film
#Money
#Who
An idyllic period of my existence was when I had a den attached to my home... a writing den, and no one had access to that unless they had their own special visa, applied for weeks in advance.
- Wole Soyinka
#Existence
#Home
#Own
#Special
#Writing
Some people think the Nobel Prize makes you bullet-proof. I never had that illusion.
- Wole Soyinka
#Illusion
#Never
#Nobel Prize
#People
I love beauty. But I like the beauty accidentally, not dished up, served up on a platter.
- Wole Soyinka
#Beauty
#Like
#Love
#Platter
#Up
You always assume for some strange reason that you need three meals a day.
- Wole Soyinka
#Always
#Day
#Reason
#Strange
#Three
The writer is the visionary of his people... He anticipates, he warns.
- Wole Soyinka
#He
#His
#People
#Visionary
#Writer
Given the scale of trauma caused by the genocide, Rwanda has indicated that however thin the hope of a community can be, a hero always emerges. Although no one can dare claim that it is now a perfect state, and that no more work is needed, Rwanda has risen from the ashes as a model or truth and reconciliation.
- Wole Soyinka
#Community
#Hero
#Hope
#Truth
#Work
I don't know any other way to live but to wake up every day armed with my convictions, not yielding them to the threat of danger and to the power and force of people who might despise me.
- Wole Soyinka
#Day
#Every Day
#Live
#Me
#Power
Some African leaders actually dare to suggest that democracy is a concept alien to traditional African society. This is one of the most impudent political blasphemies I can think of.
- Wole Soyinka
#Alien
#Democracy
#Political
#Society
I take friendship very seriously.
- Wole Soyinka
#Friendship
#Seriously
#Take
#Very
I'm not sure I'm trying to communicate a message. I'm just trying to be part of the movement away from the unacceptable present.
- Wole Soyinka
#Just
#Message
#Movement
#Present
#Trying
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.
- Wole Soyinka
#Art
#Communication
#Nature
#Social
#Why
Under a dictatorship, a nation ceases to exist. All that remains is a fiefdom, a planet of slaves regimented by aliens from outer space.
- Wole Soyinka
#Dictatorship
#Nation
#Planet
#Space
Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.
- Wole Soyinka
#Terror
#Truth
#Who
#Wish
#Writing
I am convinced that Nigeria would have been a more highly developed country without the oil. I wished we'd never smelled the fumes of petroleum.
- Wole Soyinka
#Country
#I Am
#More
#Never
#Oil
I am a glutton for tranquility.
- Wole Soyinka
#Am
#I Am
#Tranquility
And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others.
- Wole Soyinka
#Believe
#Best
#I Believe That
#Learning
#Look
#Work
For me, justice is the prime condition of humanity.
- Wole Soyinka
#Condition
#Humanity
#Justice
#Me
#Prime
I like my peace and quiet whenever I can grab it.
- Wole Soyinka
#I Can
#Peace And Quiet
#Peace
#Quiet
You cannot live a normal existence if you haven't taken care of a problem that affects your life and affects the lives of others, values that you hold which in fact define your very existence.
- Wole Soyinka
#Care
#Life
#Live
#Others
#Values
Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.
- Wole Soyinka
#Control
#Domination
#Lie
#Power
#Truth
Education is lacking in most of those who pontificate.
- Wole Soyinka
#Education
#Lacking
#Most
#Those
#Who
The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny.
- Wole Soyinka
#Face
#Keep
#Man
#Silent
#Tyranny
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
#Freedom
#History
#Power
#Society
#Truth
There is something really horrific for any human being who feels he is being consumed by other people. I'm talking about a writer's critics, who don't address what you've written, but want to probe into your existence and magnify the trivia of your life without any sense of humor, without any sense of context.
- Wole Soyinka
#Humor
#Life
#People
#Sense Of Humor
There is only one home to the life of a river-mussel; there is only one home to the life of a tortoise; there is only one shell to the soul of man: there is only one world to the spirit of our race. If that world leaves its course and smashes on boulders of the great void, whose world will give us shelter?
- Wole Soyinka
#Great
#Home
#Life
#Man
#Soul
The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.
- Wole Soyinka
#Absence
#Criticism
#Freedom
#Greatest
I grew up in an atmosphere where words were an integral part of culture.
- Wole Soyinka
#Communication
#Culture
#Up
#Where
#Words
A tiger does not shout its tigritude, it acts.
- Wole Soyinka
#Acts
#Does
#Shout
#Tiger
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