- 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. - Ben Okri
- The greatest religions convert the world through stories. - Ben Okri
- The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair. - Chinua Achebe
- The greatest stories are those that resonate our beginnings and intuit our endings, our mysterious origins and our numinous destinies, and dissolve them both into one. - Ben Okri
- The hand that dips into the bottom of the pot will eat the biggest snail. - Wole Soyinka
- Ghetto-dwellers are the great fantasists. There was an extraordinary vibrancy there, an imaginative life. When you are that poor, all you've got left is your belief in the imagination. - Ben Okri
- Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing again. We have to begin to learn to rule ourselves again. - Chinua Achebe
- Suddenly the world has run amok and left you alone and sane behind. - Wole Soyinka
- Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide. - Ben Okri
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