Creative Quotations from Wole Soyinka (1934-___

Creative Quotations from . . .

Wole Soyinka
(1934-____) born on Jul 13

Nigerian playwright, novelist, critic. He wrote of W. Africa satirically with a tragic sense of obstacles to human progress; first African, first black to win the Nobel Prize Lit., 1986.

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

I think it rains
That tongues may loosen from the porch
Uncleave roof tops of the mouth, hang
heavy with knowledge.

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.

The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.

Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F:	"Kongi's Harvest," 1967.
R:	In "My Soul Looks Back, 'Less I Forget," by Dorothy Winbush Riley, 1995.
A:	In "My Soul Looks Back, 'Less I Forget," by Dorothy Winbush Riley, 1995.
N:	In "My Soul Looks Back, 'Less I Forget," by Dorothy Winbush Riley, 1995.
K:	In "My Soul Looks Back, 'Less I Forget," by Dorothy Winbush Riley, 1995.