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.

When you stop inventing reality then you see things as they really are.

Literature doesn't have a country. Shakespeare is an African writer. His Falstaff, for example, is very African in his appetite for life, his largeness of spirit. The characters of Turgenev are ghetto dwellers. Dickens characters are Nigerians.

Creativity is the art of the impossible

I am not fighting for success, just to get more beauty out of myself and share it with more people.

One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity.

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.