Be yourself. Ultimately just be yourself.
WOLE SOYINKAWhen a leader encourages the culture of impunity, the society is lost and it makes the work harder for the rest of us.
More Wole Soyinka Quotes
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I have one abiding religion-human liberty.
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Don’t take shadows too seriously. Reality is your only safety. Continue to reject illusion.
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I never hesitated, as a student, in embracing the necessity of violence. In South Africa, I didn’t just accept it; I looked forward to it as a mission.
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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.
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Sadness is twilight’s kiss on earth.
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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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Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.
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See, even despite pious statements to the contrary, much of the industrialized world has not yet come to terms with the recognition of the fallacy of what I call the strong man syndrome.
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I am a very curious person; I’ll always ask: is this thing true, is it not true? And I use my own means to investigate and come to my conclusion.
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I think that feeling that if one believed absolutely in any cause, then one must have the confidence, the self-certainty, to go through with that particular course of action.
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It’s the place to begin, always — to return to home, literally.
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I have no money to give to you but I have ideas and organizational capacity.
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I believe that each writer must decide in which language he or she is most comfortable.
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Governance can dig itself into a huge hole and not even know it’s in there.
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I 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.
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