Author Name

There are different kinds of artists and very often, I’ll be very frank with you, I wish I were a different kind.

Author : Wole Soyinka

There’s a kind of dynamic quality about theater and that dynamic quality expresses itself in relation to, first of all, the environment in which it’s being staged; then the audience, the nature of the audience, the quality of the audience.

Author : Wole Soyinka

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.

Author : Wole Soyinka

One thing I can tell you is this, that I am not a methodical writer.

Author : Wole Soyinka

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

Author : Wole Soyinka

The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.

Author : Wole Soyinka

Man is a paradox, a beast and a god, a wolf and a dove, a man and a woman.

Author : Wole Soyinka

I don’t really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident.

Author : Wole Soyinka

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.

Author : Wole Soyinka

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.

Author : Wole Soyinka