There is a certain increase in the importance I assign to women in getting us out of the mess that we are in, which is a reflection of the role of women in my traditional culture - that they do not interfere in politics until men really make such a mess that the society is unable to go backward or forward. Then women will move in.

The rural areas have been deprived by the cities in the past. Development resources and energy should be directed where the people live.

Every generation must find its mission and fulfill it, as Fanon said - or betray it. So it is not something that you can write up on the wall, saying this is what has to be done. Every generation has to discover what it needs to do.

When there is a big tree small ones climb on its back to reach the sun.

An angry man is always a stupid man.

Nigeria is what it is because its leaders are not what they should be.

Every generation must recognize and embrace the task it is peculiarly designed by history and by providence to perform.