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Wole Soyinka

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

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

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"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."
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"Looking at faces of people, one gets the feeling there's a lot of work to be done."
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"There are different kinds of artists and very often, I'll be very frank with you, I wish I were a different kind."
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"Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom."
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"Very conscious of the fact that an effort was being made to destroy my mind, because I was deprived of books, deprived of any means of writing, deprived of human companionship. You never know how much you need it until you're deprived of it."
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"One thing I can tell you is this, that I am not a methodical writer."
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"And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others."
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"There's a kind of dynamic quality about theater and that dynamic quality expresses itself in relation to, first of all, the environment in which it's being staged; then the audience, the nature of the audience, the quality of the audience."
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