- Only those who truly love and who are truly strong can sustain their lives as a dream. You dwell in your own enchantment. Life throws stones at you, but your love and your dream change those stones into the flowers of discovery. Even if you lose, or are defeated by things, your triumph will always be exemplary. And if no one knows it, then there are places that do. People like you enrich the dreams of the worlds, and it is dreams that create history. People like you are unknowing transformers of things, protected by your own fairy-tale, by love. - Ben Okri
- Politics is the art of the possible; creativity is the art of the impossible. - Ben Okri
- Stories serve the purpose of consolidating whatever gains people or their leaders have made or imagine they have made in their existing journey thorough the world. - Chinua Achebe
- The greatest religions convert the world through stories. - Ben Okri
- Until you understand what poverty can do to the soul, it is hard to comprehend what happened in Ogoni between 1913 and 1994. Poverty can, at its best, be the foundation of generosity and a devotion to an idea that is inspiring. But, at its worst, it can corrupt minds, harden hearts and deaden the appetite for the truth. – Ken Wiwa
- Nigeria is what it is because its leaders are not what they should be. - Chinua Achebe
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