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Wole Soyinka Quotes


The hand that dips into the bottom of the pot will eat the biggest snail.

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

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

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.

There's something about the theater which makes my fingertips tingle.

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.

Well, first of all I'll say that I come alive best in theater.

Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom.