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Wole Soyinka Quotes

Nigerian - Dramatist | July 13, 1934 -

I grew up in an atmosphere where words were an integral part of culture.

Communication Culture Words Up Where

I think that feeling that if one believed absolutely in any cause, then one must have the confidence, the self-certainty, to go through with that particular course of action.

Confidence Action Think Feeling Go

I'm not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning, put a piece of paper in their typewriter machine and start writing. That I've never understood.

Morning Writing Start Never Up Get

My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing at all to do with a volatile human condition or struggle or whatever. It enriches me as a human being.

Music Struggle Me Painting Listening

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

Myself Me Accident Novel Really

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

Wish You Kind I Wish Kinds Artists

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.

Nature Quality Environment Kind

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

Something Theater Which About Makes

Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.

Truth Writing Wish Books Who Those

Looking at faces of people, one gets the feeling there's a lot of work to be done.

Work People Looking Feeling Done

I ceased using words like optimism and pessimism a long time ago.

Time Words Optimism Long Long Time

For me, justice is the prime condition of humanity.

Justice Me Humanity Prime Condition

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