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Akinwande Oluwole "Wole" Babatunde Soyinka (Yoruba: Akinwándé Oluwo̩lé Babátúndé S̩óyinká, pronounced [wɔlé ʃójĩŋká]; born 13 July 1934) is a Nigerian playwright, poet and essayist. He was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature, the first African to be honoured in that category.

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I can look violence in the face and either reject or accept it.

Looks, Faces, Violence, Accept, Face

I happen to be unfortunately temperamental. No, my temperament is also, what you describe to rainfalls, the will of society, to combat a number of contradictions. That happens to be my creative temperament.

Combat, Contradiction, Creative, Numbers, Temperament, Temperamental

Well, first of all I'll say that I come alive best in theater.

Alive, Come, Firsts, Say, Theater

Sadness is twilight's kiss on earth.

Earth, Kiss, Kissing, Sadness, Twilight

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.

Doe, Emanated, Forests, Skeleton, Skeletons, Words

The youth should come together to challenge the status quo. They must not give up.

Challenges, Give, Giving Up, Quo, Status, Together

Romance is the sweetening of the soul With fragrance offered by the stricken heart.

Heart, Offered, Romance, Soul, Sweetening

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

Accident, Aggravation, Be Considerate, Novel, Novelist, Novelists

I cannot accept the definition of collective good as articulated by a privileged minority in society, especially when that minority is in power.

Accept, Accepting, Definitions, Minorities, Power, Society

Religion has really spawned some monsters. It always has, historically. Go all the way back to the Inquisition, you know, the Crusades, the Jehad and so on.

Back, Crusades, Jehad, Monsters, Spawned, Way

Don't take shadows too seriously. Reality is your only safety. Continue to reject illusion.

Continue, Illusion, Reality, Safety, Shadow

Even when I'm writing plays I enjoy having company and mentally I think of that company as the company I'm writing for.

Company, Having, Play, Think, Thinking, Writing

Boko Haram represents the ultimate Fatwa of our time. The question is does the sect's Fatwa represent the articulated position of the majority of Muslims in this nation? My reading over the last few years is an unambiguous no. We are undergoing an affliction that many could not have imagined about a decade ago. Let us confront the ultimate horror now. To remain inactive at this moment is to betray our children and to consolidate the ongoing crimes against our humanity. We must take the battle to the enemy. . . We sent our children to school; we must bring them back to school.

Children, Enemy, Ongoing, Reading, School, Unambiguous

No man beholds his mother's womb Yet who denies it's there? Coiled To the navel of the world is that Endless cord that links us all To the great Origin. If I lose my way. The trailing cord will bring me to the roots.

Coiled, Denies, Men, Mother, Navel, Roots

Writers are human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.

Appear, Humans, Shudder, Sometimes, Thinking, Writers

I know there are writers who get up every morning and sit by their typewriter or word processor or pad of paper and wait to write. I don't function that way. I go through a long period of gestation before I'm even ready to write.

Morning, Paper, Processor, Sit, Typewriters, Writing

Under a dictatorship, a nation ceases to exist. All that remains is a fiefdom, a planet of slaves regimented by aliens from outer-space.

Aliens, Exist, Fiefdom, Planet, Slave, Space

Alfred Nobel regretted that his invention, dynamite, was converted to degrading use, hence his creation of the Nobel Prize, as the humanist counter to the destructive power of his genius.

Creation, Genius, Humanist, Invention, Use

How do I feel when I am invited to a congregation of scientists? I feel quite at home. When they break into their cultic scientific argot, I know when I'm not wanted and step out for a drink.

Congregation, Drink, Home, Invited, Scientist, Scientists

Well, some people say I'm pessimistic because I recognize the eternal cycle of evil. All I say is, look at the history of mankind right up to this moment and what do you find?

Evil, Looks, Moment, People, Recognize, Right

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