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

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

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

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.
Wole Soyinka

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

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.
Wole Soyinka

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

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