Wole Soyinka
Wole Soyinka
Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde Soyinka is a Nigerian writer, playwright, and poet. He has written three novels, ten collections of short stories, seven poetry collections, twenty-five plays and five memoirs. He also wrote two translated works and many articles and short stories for many newspapers and periodicals. He was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature for his "wide cultural perspective an
"I said: "A tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he pounces". In other words: a tiger does not stand in the forest and say: "I am a tiger". When you pass where the tiger has walked before, you see the skeleton of the duiker, you know that some tigritude has been emanated there."
"It is five full months since last / I took a wife"
"The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism."
"Sidi feels empowered by seeing her beauty for the first time in the magazine prints. She recognizes that her beauty is a commodity, allowing her agency to make a future for herself. This is a novel idea: choosing ones own future is reserved for men."
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"I see we’ve got another of the good old days. Obaneji [on the contrary]."
"When you see a man hurrying, he has got a load on his back. Do you think I live emptily that I will take anothers cause for pay or mercy?"
"The greedy dog! Insatiate camel of a foolish, doting race."
"I have a particular aversion to being mauled by women"
"These rites of the dead. I do not know why you take them on,"
"The world is big, but the dead are bigger"
"The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny."
