Top 80 Wole Soyinka Quotes (2024 Update)
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Wole Soyinka Quote: “Writers are human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.”

51. “Writers are human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.”

— Wole Soyinka

Wole Soyinka Quote: “You go to conferences, and your fellow African intellectuals – and even heads of state – they all say: ‘Nigeria is a big disappointment. It is the shame of the African continent.’”

52. “You go to conferences, and your fellow African intellectuals – and even heads of state – they all say: ‘Nigeria is a big disappointment. It is the shame of the African continent.’”

— Wole Soyinka

Wole Soyinka Quote: “Let’s say there are prospects for a new Nigeria, but I don’t think we have a new Nigeria yet.”

53. “Let’s say there are prospects for a new Nigeria, but I don’t think we have a new Nigeria yet.”

— Wole Soyinka

Wole Soyinka Quote: “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.”

54. “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.”

— Wole Soyinka

Wole Soyinka Quote: “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.”

55. “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.”

— Wole Soyinka

Wole Soyinka Quote: “Today, the constituency of fear has become much broader, far less selective.”

56. “Today, the constituency of fear has become much broader, far less selective.”

— Wole Soyinka

Wole Soyinka Quote: “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.”

57. “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.”

— Wole Soyinka

Wole Soyinka Quote: “For now, let us simply observe that the assault on human dignity is one of the prime goals of the visitation of fear, a prelude to the domination of the mind and the triumph of power.”

58. “For now, let us simply observe that the assault on human dignity is one of the prime goals of the visitation of fear, a prelude to the domination of the mind and the triumph of power.”

— Wole Soyinka

Wole Soyinka Quote: “One thing I can tell you is this, that I am not a methodical writer.”

59. “One thing I can tell you is this, that I am not a methodical writer.”

— Wole Soyinka

Wole Soyinka Quote: “The fault, of course, is not in religion, but in the fanatic of every religion. Fanaticism remains the greatest carrier of the spores of fear, and the rhetoric of religion, with the hysteria it so readily generates, is fast becoming the readiest killing device of contemporary times.”

60. “The fault, of course, is not in religion, but in the fanatic of every religion. Fanaticism remains the greatest carrier of the spores of fear, and the rhetoric of religion, with the hysteria it so readily generates, is fast becoming the readiest killing device of contemporary times.”

— Wole Soyinka

Wole Soyinka Quote: “There are different kinds of artists and very often, I’ll be very frank with you, I wish I were a different kind.”

61. “There are different kinds of artists and very often, I’ll be very frank with you, I wish I were a different kind.”

— Wole Soyinka

Wole Soyinka Quote: “There is not a special imposition on writers to be activists. All that does is encourage writers to write propaganda.”

62. “There is not a special imposition on writers to be activists. All that does is encourage writers to write propaganda.”

— Wole Soyinka

Wole Soyinka Quote: “Well, first of all I’ll say that I come alive best in theater.”

63. “Well, first of all I’ll say that I come alive best in theater.”

— Wole Soyinka

Wole Soyinka Quote: “If man cannot, what god dare claim perfection?”

64. “If man cannot, what god dare claim perfection?”

— Wole Soyinka

Wole Soyinka Quote: “The novel, for me, was an accident. I really don’t consider myself a novelist.”

65. “The novel, for me, was an accident. I really don’t consider myself a novelist.”

— Wole Soyinka

Wole Soyinka Quote: “There’s a kind of dynamic quality about theater and that dynamic quality expresses itself in relation to, first of all, the environment in which it’s being staged; then the audience, the nature of the audience, the quality of the audience.”

66. “There’s a kind of dynamic quality about theater and that dynamic quality expresses itself in relation to, first of all, the environment in which it’s being staged; then the audience, the nature of the audience, the quality of the audience.”

— Wole Soyinka

Wole Soyinka Quote: “I can look violence in the face and either reject or accept it.”

67. “I can look violence in the face and either reject or accept it.”

— Wole Soyinka

Wole Soyinka Quote: “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.”

68. “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.”

— Wole Soyinka

Wole Soyinka Quote: “Even when I’m writing plays I enjoy having company and mentally I think of that company as the company I’m writing for.”

69. “Even when I’m writing plays I enjoy having company and mentally I think of that company as the company I’m writing for.”

— Wole Soyinka

Wole Soyinka Quote: “Some of us – poets are not exactly poets. We live sometimes – beyond the word.”

70. “Some of us – poets are not exactly poets. We live sometimes – beyond the word.”

— Wole Soyinka

Wole Soyinka Quote: “Books and all forms of writing have always been objects of terror to those who seek to suppress truth.”

71. “Books and all forms of writing have always been objects of terror to those who seek to suppress truth.”

— Wole Soyinka

Wole Soyinka Quote: “I don’t really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident.”

72. “I don’t really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident.”

— Wole Soyinka

Wole Soyinka Quote: “Writers who open up horizons for other people are performing a function every bit as important as a consciously politicized writer.”

73. “Writers who open up horizons for other people are performing a function every bit as important as a consciously politicized writer.”

— Wole Soyinka

Wole Soyinka Quote: “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.”

74. “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.”

— Wole Soyinka

Wole Soyinka Quote: “I found, when I left, that there were others who felt the same way. We’d meet, they’d come and seek me out, we’d talk about the future. And I found that their depression and pessimism was every bit as acute as mine.”

75. “I found, when I left, that there were others who felt the same way. We’d meet, they’d come and seek me out, we’d talk about the future. And I found that their depression and pessimism was every bit as acute as mine.”

— Wole Soyinka

Wole Soyinka Quote: “The arrogant elimination of the Djaouts of our world must nerve us to pursue our own combative doctrine, namely: that peaceful cohabitation on this planet demands that while the upholders of any creed are free to adopt their own existential absolutes, the right of others to do the same is thereby rendered implicit and sacrosanct. Thus the creed of inquiry, of knowledge and exchange of ideas, must be upheld as an absolute, as ancient and eternal as any other.”

76. “The arrogant elimination of the Djaouts of our world must nerve us to pursue our own combative doctrine, namely: that peaceful cohabitation on this planet demands that while the upholders of any creed are free to adopt their own existential absolutes, the right of others to do the same is thereby rendered implicit and sacrosanct. Thus the creed of inquiry, of knowledge and exchange of ideas, must be upheld as an absolute, as ancient and eternal as any other.”

— Wole Soyinka

Wole Soyinka Quote: “In one form or the other, the quest for human dignity has proved to be one of the most propulsive elements for wars, civil strife and willing sacrifice. Yet the entitlement to dignity, enshrined among the ‘human rights’, does not aspire to being the most self-evident, essential need for human survival, such as food, or physical health. Compared to that other candidate for the basic impulse of human existence – self-preservation – it may even be deemed self-indulgent.”

77. “In one form or the other, the quest for human dignity has proved to be one of the most propulsive elements for wars, civil strife and willing sacrifice. Yet the entitlement to dignity, enshrined among the ‘human rights’, does not aspire to being the most self-evident, essential need for human survival, such as food, or physical health. Compared to that other candidate for the basic impulse of human existence – self-preservation – it may even be deemed self-indulgent.”

— Wole Soyinka

Wole Soyinka Quote: “Obasanjo has openly endorsed violence as a means of governance, embraced and empowered individuals whose avowed declarations, confessions and acts are cynically contrary to the mandate that alone upholds the legitimacy and dignity of his office.”

78. “Obasanjo has openly endorsed violence as a means of governance, embraced and empowered individuals whose avowed declarations, confessions and acts are cynically contrary to the mandate that alone upholds the legitimacy and dignity of his office.”

— Wole Soyinka

Wole Soyinka Quote: “The idea of having to make constant reference to politics is anathema to my calling as a writer.”

79. “The idea of having to make constant reference to politics is anathema to my calling as a writer.”

— Wole Soyinka

Wole Soyinka Quote: “Being the first black Nobel laureate, and the first African, the African world considered me personal property. I lost the remaining shreds of my anonymity, even to walk a few yards in London, Paris or Frankfurt without being stopped.”

80. “Being the first black Nobel laureate, and the first African, the African world considered me personal property. I lost the remaining shreds of my anonymity, even to walk a few yards in London, Paris or Frankfurt without being stopped.”

— Wole Soyinka

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