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The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.
I was going to be a scientist.
Creativity is the art of the impossible
a dream can be the highest point of a life
Don't neglect the gold in your own back yard.
Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.
To anyone who is homeless, I say, find a home.
I know that human beings are capable of anything.
An inner darkness is darker than an outer darkness.
We are living in enchanted time. With our spirits right.
The greatest religions convert the world through stories.
Painters ought to be mute. Speech is the enemy of expression.
A man's greatest battles are the ones he fights within himself.
This is what you must be like. Grow wherever life puts you down.
Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.
You cannot come to a Nigerian restaurant without having pepper soup.
When you stop inventing reality then you see things as they really are.
People are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves.
Don't read what everyone else is reading. Check them out later, cautiously.
Politics is the art of the possible; creativity is the art of the impossible.
Some of my reactions are very Nigerian. I still believe that words are things.
I held you in the square And felt the evening Re-order itself around Your smile.
Wholeness is the enemy of the artist. We ought to be broken, ruined in some way.
When chaos is the god of an era, clamorous music is the deity's chief instrument.
Who knows, maybe this whole planet is an asylum, a penal realm. A place for hard cases.
Fire is one of my temperaments. It is behind all my work... Fire is a chemical presence.
Destiny plans a different route and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn't have expected.
To sustain your belief through situations that completely undermine it is quite something.
I learned that life will go through changes - up and down and up again. It's what life does.
What you see is what you make. What you see in a people is what you eventually create in them.
I am not fighting for success, just to get more beauty out of myself and share it with more people.
There ought to be three traditions in the art of humanity: the realistic, the visionary and the wild.
We can redream this world and make the dream come real. Human beings are gods hidden from themselves.
We have not yet arrived, but every point at which we stop requires a re-definition of our destination.
A man must be able to hold his drink because drunkenness is sometimes necessary in this difficult life.
Home can be the friend you have been searching for all your life or the person you met once very briefly.
I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare.
The strange thing about Africa is how past, present and future come together in a kind of rough jazz, if you like.
I lived rough, by my wits, was homeless, lived on the streets, lived on friends' floors, was happy, was miserable.
If we are true, if we can love, if we have vision, if we can have courage, we can, we should, we ought to, we will.
If we could be pure dancers in spirit we would never be afraid to love, and we would love with strength and wisdom.
The law is simple. Every experience is repeated or suffered till you experience it properly and fully the first time.
I study people all the time. For some reason, we're not very good at seeing what's there or hearing what we're hearing.
One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity.
Beware of the stories you read or tell; subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they are altering your world.
When I write a poem, I go into a state of self-forgetfulness, and something higher takes over; I like to call it my best self.
The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.
Without stories we would go mad. Life would lose its moorings or lose its orientations. even in silence we are living our stories
The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it's about us, it's about the reader.
We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings.
