I do not actually see how art, literature can be anything other that being in that domain of trying to tell us, trying to get us to see what is important in our lives.

My son even if you want to fall, at least fall where your bones can be gathered

One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.

People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own history and their own experience.

The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.

I'm sure if one turned one's mind back from grandiose faults to what is happening to the average man or woman or child in the rural areas, we will probably find that's where the energy for development is.

I find Nigeria very frustrating. I am not alone in this. There are many Nigerians abroad. As you know, the brain drain is just incredible. And when we talk to one another and there is a certain sense of frustration and but I struggle not to let the frustration degenerate into dispair.