I was a supporter of the desire, in my section of Nigeria, to leave the federation because it was treated very badly with something that was called genocide in those days.

I know that an important message is not a novel. To say that we should all be kind to our neighbors is an important statement; it's not a novel.

There is no story that is not true.

I prefer to go on trying all kinds of things, not to be told, This is the way it is done.

Men have learned to shoot without missing their mark and I have learned to fly without perching on a twig.

Art should be on the side of humanity.

The women are, of course, the biggest single group of oppressed people in the world and, if we are to believe the Book of Genesis, the very oldest.