Intolerance has always been with us, you know. The moment you have ideology, we have intolerance, whether it’s the secular ideology or, you know ideocratic ideology, which always brings with it some kind of intolerance.
WOLE SOYINKAI know there are writers who get up every morning and sit by their typewriter or word processor or pad of paper and wait to write. I don’t function that way. I go through a long period of gestation before I’m even ready to write.
More Wole Soyinka Quotes
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Each time I think Ive created time for myself, along comes a throwback to disrupt my private space.
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I believe that each writer must decide in which language he or she is most comfortable.
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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.
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I don’t really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident.
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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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The man dies in all those that keep silent.
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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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Looking at faces of people, one gets the feeling there’s a lot of work to be done.
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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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Romance is the sweetening of the soul With fragrance offered by the stricken heart.
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A human feast is an indifferent morsel to a god.
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Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.
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Don’t take shadows too seriously. Reality is your only safety. Continue to reject illusion.
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Religion has really spawned some monsters. It always has, historically. Go all the way back to the Inquisition, you know, the Crusades, the Jehad and so on.
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And gradually they’re beginning to recognize the fact that there’s nothing more secure than a democratic, accountable, and participatory form of government. But it’s sunk in only theoretically, it has not yet sunk in completely in practical terms.
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