199 Quotes by Wole Soyinka

Writers and intellectuals have a duty to humanity. It is to insist that the human entity remains the primary asset in overall development; thus, it must be safeguarded.

My father was a schoolteacher, and so I had the advantage of both western educational instruction in the school, as well as what you might call the process of imbibing the traditional processes of education instruction around me.

I've always written plays for the purpose of getting something out of my system.

Those nations that say it's a crime to preach your religion are making a terrible mistake. All they're doing is driving underground other forms of spiritual intuitions and practices.

You always assume for some strange reason that you need three meals a day.

Very conscious of the fact that an effort was being made to destroy my mind, because I was deprived of books, deprived of any means of writing, deprived of human companionship. You never know how much you need it until you're deprived of it.

African film makers are scraping by on a mere pittance.

Some of the greatest uprisings and consequent civil wars in Mexico have centered squarely on the ownership of land.

An excessive amount of my time is taken with political involvement. It's unavoidable; that's my temperament.