Soyinka, Wole Filmography

• Play in Full Screen Un dieu au bord de la route

  1994, role: actor , character name: Narrator
• Play in Full Screen Kongi's Harvest

  1970, role: actor , character name: President Kongi
• Play in Full Screen Kongi's Harvest

  1970, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Kongi's Harvest

  1970, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Joshua: A Nigerian Portrait

  1963, role: writer

Famous quotes by Wole Soyinka:

"We are moving towards a total mockery of constitutionalism. The president has crossed the line of political toleration."

"Obasanjo has openly endorsed violence as a means of governance, embraced and empowered individuals whose avowed declarations, confessions and acts are cynically contrary to the mandate that alone upholds the legitimacy and dignity of his office."

"Obasanjo has acted sufficiently against the constitution to warrant his impeachment. There is more than enough evidence to warrant his impeachment."

"It's the place to begin, always -- to return to home, literally."

"Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth."

"[It] takes a jaundiced view of the much-vaunted glorious past of Africa. And I suppose since then I've been doing nothing but the danse macabre in this political jungle of ours."

"My father used to tell me stories before I fell asleep. When the children would gather, at a certain point, I had a tendency to make up my own elementary variations on stories I had heard, or to invent totally new ones."

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

"Suddenly the world has run amok and left you alone and sane behind"

"The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism."

"And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others."

"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."

"I ceased using words like optimism and pessimism a long time ago."

"Looking at faces of people, one gets the feeling there's a lot of work to be done."

"There is only one home to the life of a river-mussel; there is only one home to the life of a tortoise; there is only one shell to the soul of man: there is only one world to the spirit of our race. If that world leaves its course and smashes on boulders of the great void, whose world will give us shelter?"

"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."

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

"I grew up in an atmosphere where words were an integral part of culture."

"I don't really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident."

"One, a mass movement from within, which, as you know, is constantly being put down brutally but which, again, regroups and moves forward as is happening right now as we are speaking."