The gods in Yoruba mythology are not remote at all. They're benign, they're malign, they are mischievous, like Eshu for instance, tricksters, rascally, fornicators, that's a similarity to Greek mythology, for instance, you know. They're not saints, they're not saints. They're powerful. It's why they're not tyrannical. Of course, a number of them are also very, you know, benevolent, you know, there are saintly virtues to be found in them.

I have no money to give to you but I have ideas and organizational capacity.

Writers who open up horizons for other people are performing a function every bit as important as a consciously politicized writer.

I grew up in an atmosphere where words were an integral part of culture.

Romance is the sweetening of the soul With fragrance offered by the stricken heart.

I don’t know any other way to live but to wake up everyday armed with my convictions, not yielding them to the threat of danger and to the power and force of people who might despise me.

Governance can dig itself into a huge hole and not even know it's in there.