Each time I think Ive created time for myself, along comes a throwback to disrupt my private space.
WOLE SOYINKAWhat I teach is literary criticism and comparative literature and so on and that’s my function, but from time to time it’s possible for me actually to help a writer. I read something and something strikes me then, I feel I can talk to that writer about it.
More Wole Soyinka Quotes
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I have no money to give to you but I have ideas and organizational capacity.
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For me, a writer is already being the deuce of his mission, his occupation to society.
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I don’t really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident.
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A human feast is an indifferent morsel to a god.
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There is something really horrific for any human being who feels he is being consumed by other people.
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I consider the process of gestation just as important as when you’re actually sitting down putting words to the paper.
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I rarely use mythology for its own sake because, as a theatre person, the mythological figures are in fact humanity to the ninth degree and Yoruba mythology in particular has fascination of being one of the most humanised mythologies in the world.
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Let’s say there are prospects for a new Nigeria, but I don’t think we have a new Nigeria yet.
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I believe that each writer must decide in which language he or she is most comfortable.
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My understanding of the creative process is simply that all cultures and all concerns meet at a certain point, the human point in which everything is related to one another. That has been my creative experience.
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When I say war, I’m not talking about mental war; I’m talking about totally eliminating the obstacles to transformation of our children.
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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.
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Alfred Nobel regretted that his invention, dynamite, was converted to degrading use, hence his creation of the Nobel Prize, as the humanist counter to the destructive power of his genius.
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Some of us – poets are not exactly poets. We live sometimes – beyond the word.
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My definition of slavery is the deprivation of human volition, any form of relationship between two peoples which is based on the deprivation of volition of one side.
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