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Wole Soyinka Quotes

The phenomenon of creativity, we know, is closely related to the ability to yoke together separate, and even seemingly incompatible, matrices.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: dramatist
Nationality: nigerian
Birth: July 13, 1934

Topics

Creativity Together Know Ability

I was on Twitter right in the first couple months that it was out.

Andrew Keenan-Bolger

First Right Out Twitter Months

My whole family was Muslim, and most of the people I knew were Muslim.

Maya Soetoro-Ng

Family People Whole Muslim Knew

When I was a street performer, before I had any songs of my own that anybody would stop and put in money for, I would always be doing covers. Even with covers, people wouldn't stop in the beginning.

Money Beginning People Doing Stop

The thing about darts is that you've got to shout. It's not like cricket where you can talk to Michael Atherton and ask him to analyse the bloody nuances. Darts does not have nuances. You've got to hurl yourself at it.

Yourself Cricket You Talk Ask Him

If I fancy someone but can't tell them because I'm shy, I'll think, 'It's fine. You're not going to die. Maybe just tell them or whatever.'

Think Someone Die You Shy Whatever

As we travel around Britain, I am convinced most of us cannot really appreciate what we are seeing. We take too much for granted, because it is all so familiar.

Travel I Am Appreciate Seeing Take

NPR fired me for telling the truth. The truth is that I worry when I am getting on an airplane and see people dressed in garb that identifies them first and foremost as Muslims. This is not a bigoted statement. It is a statement of my feelings, my fears after the terrorist attacks of 9/11 by radical Muslims.

Truth I Am People Me Airplane Worry

Faviana is a line that girls can feel super-glamorous in. A lot of their designs are kind of based off of what celebrities wear on the red carpet!

Red Feel Kind Line Red Carpet Wear

For me, I have gay family members, and I have a lot of friends in the LBGT community.

Family Community Me Friends Gay Lot

Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Learning Knowledge Men World Reading

I definitely think that comedy is my niche.

Think Comedy Niche Definitely

It seems like they conflate Bruce and the Hulk. It's usually, 'Hulk!' as I'm walking across the street. But sometimes it's 'Banner!' If you go on my Twitter feed, you'll see it's mostly Hulk. I think it was pretty spectacular what we were able to accomplish with CGI with 'The Hulk,' and I can't take full credit for that.

Think Walking Credit You Accomplish

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