3 December 2020 Wole Soyinka Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.
3 December 2020 Wole Soyinka Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.
3 December 2020 Wole Soyinka 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.
3 December 2020 Wole Soyinka 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.
3 December 2020 Wole Soyinka 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.
3 December 2020 Wole Soyinka 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.
3 December 2020 Wole Soyinka And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others.
3 December 2020 Wole Soyinka But when you’re deprived of it for a lengthy period then you value human companionship. But you have to survive and so you devise all kinds of mental exercises and it’s amazing.
3 December 2020 Wole Soyinka 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.
3 December 2020 Wole Soyinka 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.
