199 Quotes by Wole Soyinka

I love beauty. But I like the beauty accidentally, not dished up, served up on a platter.

The novel, for me, was an accident. I really don't consider myself a novelist.

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.

I have a kind of magnetic attraction to situations of violence.

Military dictatorship, you can focus on it, you can fight it directly. It's a band of power-driven people.

I cannot belong to a nation which permits such barbarities as stoning to death and amputation - I don't care what religion it is.

Some people think the Nobel Prize makes you bullet-proof. I never had that illusion.

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.

One, a mass movement from within, which, as you know, is constantly being put down brutally but which, again, regroups and moves forward as is happening right now as we are speaking.