- The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that “it's this or maybe that”, you have just one large statement; “It is this!” - Chinua Achebe
- The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience. - Chinua Achebe
- It is our imagination that transforms itself into reality, through our physical strength and endeavours. - Helen Araromi
- The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism. - Wole Soyinka
- To poison a nation, poison its stories. A demoralised nation tells demoralised stories to itself. Beware of the storytellers who are not fully conscious of the importance of their gifts, and who are irresponsible in the application of their art: they. - Ben Okri
- Don't despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed, if you see them perish, because the best things are always growing in secret. - Ben Okri
- Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger. - Ben Okri
- The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell. - Ben Okri
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