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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.

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.

Wole Soyinka

Theater

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, 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.

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

Wole Soyinka

First

Theater

But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That's why I call it the most social of the various art forms.

And gradually they're beginning to recognize the fact that there's nothing more secure than a democratic, accountable, and participatory form of government. But it's sunk in only theoretically, it has not yet sunk in completely in practical terms.

And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others.

Wole Soyinka

Work

Learning

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.

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

Wole Soyinka

Accident

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

Wole Soyinka

Will

The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.

Wole Soyinka