Wole Soyinka Time Quotations

Each time I think I've created time for myself, along comes a throwback to disrupt my private space.

One has a responsibility to clean up one's space and make it livable as far as one's own resources go. That includes not only material resources, but psychological resources: the commitment of time and a portion of your mind to something when you'd rather be doing something else.

Some of us – poets are not exactly poets. We live sometimes – beyond the word.

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

An excessive amount of my time is taken with political involvement. It's unavoidable; that's my temperament.

My understanding of the creative process is simply that all cultures and all concerns meet at a certain point, the human point in which everything is related to one another. That has been my creative experience. I never know who's influencing me at any time.

I like to say, 'I spend one-third of my time in Nigeria, one-third in Europe or America, and one-third on a plane.'

I've done a lot of guerrilla theater in my time.

The Sudanese government has been playing games with the world, with the Africa Union, in particular, have been playing for time in order to conclude its mission of ethnic cleansing in the Sudan.

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