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

A goat does not eat into a hen's stomach no matter how friendly the two may be.

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.

One reason why I am quite angry with what is happening in Nigeria today is that everything has collapsed. If I decide to go back now, there will be so many problems - where will I find the physical therapy and other things that I now require?

No man however great is greater than his people

Charity . . . is the opium of the privileged.

Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.