When I say war, I’m not talking about mental war; I’m talking about totally eliminating the obstacles to transformation of our children.
WOLE SOYINKAEach time I think Ive created time for myself, along comes a throwback to disrupt my private space.
More Wole Soyinka Quotes
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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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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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Arts and the Sciences are a natural symbiosis. They stem from the same human existential impulse – exploration. Exploration of what lies beneath the surface, and re-confuguration of elements of what we call reality.
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I don’t really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident.
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Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.
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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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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 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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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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And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others.
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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 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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The youth should come together to challenge the status quo. They must not give up.
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We all have our individual artistic temperaments as well as partisanships in creative directions. And we have strong opinions on the merits of the products of our occupation.
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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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