“The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny.”

— Wole Soyinka · Courage quote

Playwright, Nobel laureate · born 1934

Nigerian playwright and poet; the first African to win the Nobel Prize in Literature (1986).

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Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.

Nothing is more precious than independence and freedom.

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me.

Fortune favors the bold.

Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.

O snail, climb Mount Fuji — but slowly, slowly!

I would rather have a government run like hell by Filipinos than a government run like heaven by Americans.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.