199 Quotes by Wole Soyinka

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.'

I'm an Afro-realist. I take what comes, and I do my best to affect what is unacceptable in society.

In Africa, those who have money - businessmen and banks - do not believe in film.

I don't have the sort of temperament that submits to Christianity or Islam.

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

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.

I've done a lot of guerrilla theater in my time.

Before you're a writer, you're a citizen, a human being, and therefore the weapons of the citizen are at your disposal to use or not use.

I like to say, 'I spend one-third of my time in Nigeria, one-third in Europe or America, and one-third on a plane.'