62 quotes found
Writer · Nigerian · 1959
Nigerian writer (born 1959)
“A dream can be the highest point of a life”
“Don't neglect the gold in your own back yard.”
“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.”
“When you stop inventing reality then you see things as they really are.”
“Do you know what the luckiest thing is?No.It is to be at home everywhere.”
“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.”
“A people are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves. Sick storytellers can make nations sick.”
“The intelligence that shaped the universe, shaped you. There is an inner part of us, for ever obscured, for ever mysterious, which is most alive during the process of composition. And that inner pa...”
“Maybe true travel is not the transportation of the body, but a change of perception, renewing the mind.”
“When weve been travelling around Ive often thought: Oh, this would be a good place to be, and that would be an excellent place to live. And yet, after Ive seen everything Ive decided that home, whe...”
“I love your loneliness. It is brave. It makes the universe want to protect you.”
“He thought about how the camera makes one fall in love with an image of oneself, and perpetuates a false reality.”
“Knowledge of self ought to be the great project of our lives. Knowing ourselves we will know others. Only by knowing ourselves can we begin to undo the madness we unleash on the world in our wars, ...”
“We plan our lives according to a dream that came to us in our childhood, and we find that life alters our plans. And yet, at the end, from a rare height, we also see that our dream was our fate. It...”
“The law is simple. Every experience is repeated or suffered till you experience it properly and fully the first time.”
“In a fractured age, when cynicism is god, here is a possible heresy: we live by stories, we also live in them. One way or another we are living the stories planted in us early or along the way, we ...”
“Understanding is a pure glass of water. All great truths have no taste. Hints of sweetness are coloured by the need for amazement.”
“Reading, therefore, is a co-production between writer and reader. The simplicity of this tool is astounding. So little, yet out of it whole worlds, eras, characters, continents, people never encou...”
“This earth that we live on is full of stories in the same way that, for a fish, the ocean is full of ocean. Some people say when we are born were born into stories. I say were also born from stories.”
“The highest kind of writingwhich must not be confused withthe most ambitious kindbelongs to the realm of grace. Talent ispart of it, certainly; a thorough understanding of the secret laws,absolutel...”
“I noticed that in a corner, across from where they ate with such innocent relish, sitting forlorn and abandoned, was the ghost of their son. He had lost both of his arms, one side of his face was s...”
“Strange things are happening to us.To our children.They sayhe is looking for the spirit of Independence.They say he is looking for himself.For his ownspirit.Which he lost when the white man came.”
“The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret failure.”
