There's something about the theater which makes my fingertips tingle.
From Wole Soyinka
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.
Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.
A war, with its attendant human suffering, must, when that evil is unavoidable, be made to fragment more than buildings: It must shatter the foundations of thought and re-create. Only in this way does every individual share in the cataclysm and understand the purpose of sacrifice.
Seven is the magic figure, because that's a symbolic figure of my favorite deity, Ogun.
My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing at all to do with a volatile human condition or struggle or whatever. It enriches me as a human being.
All religions accept that there is something called 'criminality.' And criminality cannot be excused by religious fervour.
See, even despite pious statements to the contrary, much of the industrialized world has not yet come to terms with the recognition of the fallacy of what I call the strong man syndrome.
The writer is the visionary of his people... He anticipates, he warns.
Well, first of all I'll say that I come alive best in theater.
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