Wole Soyinka Quotes

But then I am a woman. I have a woman’s longings and weaknesses.

Today, the constituency of fear has become much broader, far less selective.

This whole family business sickens me. Let everybody lead their own lives,"

Because he could not bear to let honour fly out of doors, he stopped it with his life. The son has proved the father Elesin, and there is nothing left in your mouth to gnash but infant gums.

When the dog hides a bone does he not throw up sand?

When your businessmen ruin the lesser ones, do you go crying to them?"

The nude shanks of a king is not a sight for children - it will blind them.

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't going away

Power comes from bending Nature to your will.

The ground that man walks on, has it not always been there?

The world is big, but the dead are bigger

Sadly, it is within the religious domain that the phenomenon of rhetorical hysteria takes its most devastating form....

How often must I tell you, Sidi, that / A grown-up girl must cover up her... / Her... shoulders? I can see quite... quite / A good portion of—that!

Wild Christian shushed him, but I saw no difference in both their attitudes. I was overwhelmed by only one fact- there was neither justice nor logic in the world of grown-ups

Aroni has taken control. That is when the guilty become afraid.