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Wole Soyinka
Wole Soyinka
Nigerian Dramatist
Born: Jul 13, 1934
Me Think Time World Writing You
Related authors: Anton Chekhov David Mamet Friedrich Schiller George Bernard Shaw Oscar Wilde Tennessee Williams William Shakespeare Zora Neale Hurston
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 Space Alien Nation Outer Outer Space Remains Exist Ceases Planet Slaves
I'm an Afro-realist. I take what comes, and I do my best to affect what is unacceptable in society. Wole Soyinka
Best Society Unacceptable Take Affect
Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth. Wole Soyinka
Truth Writing Wish Books Those Suppress Terror Forms Who
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
You Arrogance Pride Colonialism Feeling Way Gives Imperial Take Adventure Openness Sort Undertake Bred Your Innate
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
Life You Problem Care Values Live Others Define Fact Taken Existence Normal Affects Very In Fact Hold Cannot Which Your Lives
We live in a materialist world, and materialism appeals so strongly to humanity, no matter where. Wole Soyinka
Humanity World Matter Live Strongly Materialism Materialist Where Appeals
The hand that dips into the bottom of the pot will eat the biggest snail. Wole Soyinka
Will Eat Dips Pot Bottom Snail Hand Biggest
A war, with its attendant human suffering, must, when that evil is unavoidable, be made to fragment more than buildings: It must shatter the foundations of thought and re-create. Only in this way does every individual share in the cataclysm and understand the purpose of sacrifice. Wole Soyinka
War Suffering Evil Thought Made Sacrifice Every Fragment Way Must Unavoidable More Only Purpose Individual Share Attendant Shatter Understand Buildings Does Than Human Human Suffering Foundations
I take friendship very seriously. Wole Soyinka
Friendship Seriously Take Very
Books and all forms of writing have always been objects of terror to those who seek to suppress the truth. Wole Soyinka
Truth Writing Books Those Seek Objects Suppress Terror Always Been Forms Who
Nigeria has had the misfortune - no, the fortune - of seeing the worst face of capitalism anywhere in Africa. The masses have seen it, they are disgusted, and they want an alternative. Wole Soyinka
Capitalism Face Seen Worst Seeing Misfortune Had Masses Alternative Africa Disgusted Want Anywhere Fortune Nigeria
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 Nature Communication Various Both Most Call Because Audience Text Art Forms Effects Theater Forms Social Multimedia Base Why Images Wider
I am a glutton for tranquility. Wole Soyinka
Am Tranquility
Trading and religion have always been aligned together in the history of the world, and especially on the African continent. Wole Soyinka
Religion History Together World Aligned Always Continent Trading Been The History Of African
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 Writing School Definite Poems Poetry Writer School Plays Involved Wrote Said Always Been Began Selling Very Festivals Essays Short Stories Short Stories Moment Radio Now Early Plays
I love beauty. But I like the beauty accidentally, not dished up, served up on a platter. Wole Soyinka
Love Beauty Like Accidentally Up Platter Served
Art is solace; art is vision, and when I pick up a literary work, I am a consumer of literature for its own sake. Wole Soyinka
Work Art Vision Own Solace Consumer Pick Am Sake Up Literary Literary Work Literature
History teaches us to beware of the excitation of the liberated and the injustices that often accompany their righteous thirst for justice. Wole Soyinka
History Justice Liberated Righteous Beware Accompany Often Us Teaches Injustices Thirst
Education is lacking in most of those who pontificate. Wole Soyinka
Education Those Most Lacking Pontificate Who
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 Me Every Day People Wake Up Power Convictions Live Every Other Despise Way Danger Threat Armed Know Force Wake Up Yielding Any Any Other Way Them Might Who
The phenomenon of creativity, we know, is closely related to the ability to yoke together separate, and even seemingly incompatible, matrices. Wole Soyinka
Together Creativity Related Ability Seemingly Know Yoke Closely Separate Even Incompatible Phenomenon
Some of the greatest uprisings and consequent civil wars in Mexico have centered squarely on the ownership of land. Wole Soyinka
Ownership Civil Some Civil Wars Greatest Mexico Squarely Centered Land Wars Consequent
But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That's all. Wole Soyinka
Sit Down Lesson Write Ultimate Just
But when you're 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 it's amazing. Wole Soyinka
You Amazing Value Kinds Mental Devise Period Exercises Survive Human Lengthy To Survive Deprived Then Companionship
Even when I'm writing plays I enjoy having company and mentally I think of that company as the company I'm writing for. Wole Soyinka
Writing Enjoy Think Having Mentally Company Even Plays
I consider the process of gestation just as important as when you're actually sitting down putting words to the paper. Wole Soyinka
You Words Important Down Consider Paper Putting Sitting Just Process Actually
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