Wole Soyinka Quotes About Culture

Quotes about: Culture

• When a leader encourages the culture of impunity, the society is lost and it makes the work harder for the rest of us.

  Wole Soyinka

  Hard Work, Leader, Culture

  Source: saharareporters.com

• Culture is a matrix of infinite possibilities and choices. From within the same culture matrix we can extract arguments and strategies for the degradation and ennoblement of our species, for its enslavement or liberation, for the suppression of its productive potential or its enhancement.

  Wole Soyinka

  Choices, Enhancement, Culture

• Everybody knows that fraternities are a normal culture in all colleges. It exists in all colleges. President Clinton was a member of a fraternity. In fact, anybody who goes to College in the United States is a member of a College fraternity. There is absolutely nothing evil or occultic about fraternity.

  Wole Soyinka

  College, Evil, President

  Source: saharareporters.com

• I grew up in an atmosphere where words were an integral part of culture.

  Wole Soyinka

  Atmosphere, Culture, Grew Up

• I was born into a Christian household, in a parsonage in fact, so I grew up in sort of a missionary atmosphere but it was an environment which involved both the traditional religions as well as the Muslim religion, so we were exposed to all the various facets of faith, micro cultures which existed within those beliefs, and even though I've lost whatever Christian faith was drummed into me as a child, I still maintain very good relationship with all the various religions.

  Wole Soyinka

  Christian, Children, Good Relationship

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

• 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.

  Wole Soyinka

  Creative, Understanding, Culture

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

• My interest in culture generally is a comparative one, and I think that's where the word joy, I think, can be applicable. There's joy in actually seeing the relatedness, the connectedness of different cultures or recognising, for instance, your own culture in another or another culture in your own culture and feeling an air to all of them.

  Wole Soyinka

  Thinking, Air, Joy

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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