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. Wole Soyinka Read Quote
I don’t really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident. Wole Soyinka Read Quote
I found, when I left, that there were others who felt the same way. We’d meet, they’d come and seek me out, we’d talk about the future. And I found that their depression and pessimism was every bit as acute as mine. Wole Soyinka Read Quote
The novel, for me, was an accident. I really don’t consider myself a novelist. Wole Soyinka Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. Wole Soyinka Read Quote
If African film makers had one-tenth the amount commanded by film makers the world over – even the amount used by so-called shoestring film makers – I think we would see quite an explosion of African films on the world scene. Wole Soyinka Read Quote
