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I believe that prizes are useful things for the disciplines, whether we are talking about chemistry or we're talking... It motivates, it, you know, inspires, it encourages and it brings, in the case of literature, it

I believe that prizes are useful things for the disciplines, whether we are talking about chemistry or we're talking... It motivates, it, you know, inspires, it encourages and it brings, in the case of literature, it brings literature, the arts out of the ghetto.

Wole Soyinka

Art, Believe, Ghetto

Source: www.nobelprize.org

There's something about the theater which makes my fingertips tingle.

Wole Soyinka

Fingertips, Theater

African film makers are scraping by on a mere pittance.

Wole Soyinka

Film, Makers, Mere

"Africa's Own Cannes Festival / Lots of enthusiasm, dearth of funds for black cinema" by Tina Susman, www.sfgate.com. March 4, 1995.

Writers who open up horizons for other people are performing a function every bit as important as a consciously politicized writer.

Wole Soyinka

People, Important, Horizon

Source: www.motherjones.com

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

Wole Soyinka

Running, World, Sane

Wole Soyinka (1973). “Collected Plays”, p.112, London ; New York : Oxford University Press

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.

Wole Soyinka

Moving, Movement, Mass