Wole Soyinka Quotes

The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny

What is one flesh from another? So I tried it again, just to be sure of myself. It was the first step to power, you understand. Power in its purest sense. The end of inhibitions. The conquest of weakness of your too human flesh with all its sentiment.

Power comes from bending Nature to your will.

It’s my life that’s gone into his. I haven’t burrowed so deep to cast good earth onto worthless seeds….

God rot your coward bones! Do you think not enough people die here that you must come and threaten me with death. You spurious spew. You instrument of mortgage. You unlicensed appendage of the steering wheel...

...There are dangers in the Quest I know, but the Word may be found companion not to life, but Death.

Do you take me for a common gawper after misery?... My bed is among the dead, and when the road rises a victory cry to break my sleep I hurry to a disgruntled swam of souls full of spite for their rejected bodies

Nonsense, we run a bus. The seats face where you are going

You say you get pride and you are still a conductor on a bolekaja.

It's a foolish elder who becomes a creditor, since he must wait until the other world, or outlive his debtors.

If the young sapling bends, the old twig if it resists the wind, can only break.

When a squirrel seeks sanctuary up the iroko tree the hunter's chase is ended.

Age has shrunk the tortoise and the shell is full of air pockets.

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

The ostrich also sports plumes but I've yet to see that wise bird leave the ground.