Wole Soyinka Quotes - Page 7

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• As you get drawn more and more into other activities, like political activities, very demanding, you have to find different rhythms of writing; I think that's the word I'm looking for, rhythms of creativity which then, of course, become very intense. I think your writing then tends to be very intensified simply because there are other demands which seem equally important.

  Wole Soyinka

  Writing, Creativity, Thinking

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• Next to the commodities of corruption, and religion, however, Nigeria is the world capital of rumour mongering.

  Wole Soyinka

  Next, World, Corruption

  Source: saharareporters.com

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

  Wole Soyinka

  Fingertips, Theater

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• African film makers are scraping by on a mere pittance.

  Wole Soyinka

  Film, Makers, Mere

  "Africa's Own Cannes Festival / Lots of enthusiasm, dearth of funds for black cinema" by Tina Susman, www.sfgate.com. March 4, 1995.

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

  Wole Soyinka

  People, Important, Horizon

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• 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.

  Wole Soyinka

  Moving, Movement, Mass

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• Suddenly the world has run amok and left you alone and sane behind

  Wole Soyinka

  Running, World, Sane

  Wole Soyinka (1973). “Collected Plays”, p.112, London ; New York : Oxford University Press

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• 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

  Artist, Wish, Different

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

  Wole Soyinka

  Aggravation, Novelists, Be Considerate

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

  Wole Soyinka

  Alive, Firsts, Theater

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