Home / Quotes / Quote by Wole Soyinka

Quote by Wole Soyinka

“You go to conferences, and your fellow African intellectuals - and even heads of state - they all say: 'Nigeria is a big disappointment. It is the shame of the African continent.'”

Quote by Wole Soyinka

Author

Wole Soyinka is a renowned Nigerian writer, playwright, poet, and political activist. Born on July 13, 1934, in Abeokuta, Nigeria, Soyinka is known for his profound social commentary and critical literary works. His writings span various forms, including drama, poetry, and fiction, often exploring themes of race, class, colonialism, and African identity. more

You May Also Like

“Well, Nigeria has played a constructive role in peacekeeping in various parts of West Africa. But unless and until Nigeria itself is democratic and respects human rights, it too may well be a source of much greater instability as political repression limits the ability of the people of Nigeria to achieve their full potential.”

“The speeding toy cars produce in the viewer the stress of living in a dynamic, active and bustling 21st-century city.”

Cities Century Car Produce Stress Active Toys 21st Century Viewers Speeding

Author:Chris Burden

“The idea was to take fine art and put it into the location of the movie scripts. The script itself is collage - some of the lines come from actual movies and I've written others to make the text work with the found image. In this way, the details of old dead guys' paintings (from the collection of the Städel Museum in Frankfurt, where this work will be exhibited in relation to the historical paintings) become illustrations of the movie scripts. I found this mélange of high art and Hollywood amusing.”

Way Art Ideas Guy Found Lines Written Painting Fine Hollywood Relation Historical Scripts Details Collections Museums Location Amusing Fine Arts Illustration Collages High Art Frankfurt

Author:John Baldessari

“Even as a kid in drawing class, I had real ambition. I wanted to be the best in the class, but there was always some other feller who was better; so I thought, It cant be about being the best, it has to be about the drawing itself, what you do with it. Thats kind of stuck with me.”

Kind Real Kids Wanted Class Ambition Drawing Stuck Being The Best Cant

Author:Damien Hirst

“I would say that each of us has only one thing to gain from the feminist movement: Our whole humanity. Because gender has wrongly told us that some things are masculine and some things are feminine... which is bullshit.”

Whole Humanity One Thing Movement Gains Feminist Gender Feminine Bullshit Masculine Feminist Movement

Author:Gloria Steinem

“Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.”

Children Stills Creatures Dependent Housewife Parasites

Author:Gloria Steinem

“There's no emotion more revolutionary than empathy.”

Emotion Empathy Revolutionary

Author:Gloria Steinem

“Now we know that women can do what men can do..., but we don't know that men can do what women can do.”

Knows Men Can Do

Author:Gloria Steinem

“The only thing we learn from history, I am afraid, is that we do not learn from history.”

Author:Ron Paul

“The problem lay buried, unspoken for many years in the minds of American women. It was a strange stirring, a sense of dissatisfaction, a yearning that women suffered in the middle of the twentieth century in the United States. Each suburban housewife struggled with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night, she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question - "Is this all?"”