Quotes by Dramatists

My father was a schoolteacher, and so I had the advantage of both western educational instruction in the school, as well as what you might call the process of imbibing the traditional processes of education instruction around me. Wole Soyinka

Education Me You School Father Both Had Advantage Instruction Schoolteacher Well Call Around Traditional Educational Western Process Processes Might

Military dictatorship, you can focus on it, you can fight it directly. It's a band of power-driven people. Wole Soyinka

You Fight People Dictatorship Focus Band Military Directly

Writing in certain environments carries with it an occupational risk. Wole Soyinka

Writing Carries Risk Environments Occupational Certain

Probably to me the greatest singer, female voice, is Billie Holiday. And one of the most moving for me, I don't know why - maybe it's nostalgia, maybe because my life is one of constant partying, whatever. Wole Soyinka

Life Me My Life Whatever Constant Voice Know Most Singer Because Female Partying Greatest Maybe Nostalgia Holiday Moving Billie Holiday Why

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. Wole Soyinka

Government Time World Has-Been Cleansing Particular Mission Conclude Been Africa Order Ethnic Games Union Sudan Playing Playing Games

I have a kind of magnetic attraction to situations of violence. Wole Soyinka

Kind Magnetic Attraction Situations Violence

I regret all of my books. Zora Neale Hurston

Regret Books

I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump. Zora Neale Hurston

Love Made Fall Parachute Jump Did Just

There is something about poverty that smells like death. Zora Neale Hurston

Death Poverty About Something Like Smells

So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter. Zora Neale Hurston

Courage Laughter Black States Brother Source Offers Endures United United States