Mythology can be used, and has been used, even to re-state, you know, the very urgent problems of the world.

I am convinced that Nigeria would have been a more highly developed country without the oil. I wished we'd never smelled the fumes of petroleum.

The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.

Don't take shadows too seriously. Reality is your only safety. Continue to reject illusion.

Suddenly the world has run amok and left you alone and sane behind

It is not fair to those who fight corruption that they have to fight the aggressiveness, the impunity of the corrupt.

Intolerance has become, I think, the reigning ideology of the world today, the intolerance versus intolerance and it's taken on lethal proportions.