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 SOYINKAIt is the human potentials that interest me. I travel and everywhere I go I am amazed at the presence of Nigerians. The intelligence, integrity, productivity, initiative.
More Wole Soyinka Quotes
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I said: “A tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he pounces”. In other words: a tiger does not stand in the forest and say: “I am a tiger”. When you pass where the tiger has walked before, you see the skeleton of the duiker, you know that some tigritude has been emanated there.
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The man dies in all those that keep silent.
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I believe that each writer must decide in which language he or she is most comfortable.
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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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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.
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You accept whoever you are interacting with, directly, or indirectly.
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It’s the place to begin, always — to return to home, literally.
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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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I’m not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning, put a piece of paper in their typewriter machine and start writing. That I’ve never understood.
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I cannot accept the definition of collective good as articulated by a privileged minority in society, especially when that minority is in power.
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To achieve any change in the minds of the youth, there must be reorientation in terms of materialistic tendencies, corruption and crime generally.
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The media owes the responsibility to constantly tell the public the truth.
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When a leader encourages the culture of impunity, the society is lost and it makes the work harder for the rest of us.
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I have no money to give to you but I have ideas and organizational capacity.
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Looking at faces of people, one gets the feeling there’s a lot of work to be done.
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