1.
‘Books and all forms of writing are terror to
those who wish to suppress the truth.’
2.
‘The greatest threat to freedom is the absence
of criticism.’
4. ‘Don’t
take shadows too seriously, reality is our only safety; continue to reject
illusions.’
5.
‘You are not a complete human being if you are
not educated, schooled or cultured.’
6.
‘Nigeria is in war and only competence can
solve the problem, not prayers.’
7. ‘Bluff
is no substitute for bullets.’
8.
‘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.’
9.
‘But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and
write. That’s all.’
10.
‘My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading
the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera,
which has nothing at all to do with a volatile human condition or struggle or
whatever. It enriches me as a human being.’
11.
‘And I believe that the best learning process
of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others.’
12.
‘Human life has meaning only to that degree and
as long as it is lived in the service of humanity.’
13.
‘I’m not sure I’m trying to communicate a
message. I’m just trying to be part of the movement away from the unacceptable
present.’
14.
‘A tiger does not shout its tigritude, it
acts.’
15.
‘I take friendship very seriously.’
16.
‘No human is completely fearless.’
17.
‘The phenomenon of creativity, we know, is
closely related to the ability to yoke together separate, and even seemingly
incompatible matrices.’
18.
‘I consider the process of gestation just as
important as when you’re actually sitting down putting words to paper.’
19.
‘You cannot live a normal existence if you
haven’t taken care of a problem that affects your life and affects the lives of
others, values that you hold which in fact, define your very existence.’
20.
‘Art is solace; art is vision, and when I pick
up a literary work, I am a consumer of literature for its own sake.’
21.
‘Looking at faces of people, one gets the
feeling there’s a lot of work to be done.’
22.
‘I don’t really consider myself a novelist, it
just came purely by accident.’
23.
‘Writers and intellectuals have a duty to
humanity. It is to insist that the human entity remains the primary asset in
overall development; thus, it must be safeguarded.’
24.
‘An idyllic period of my existence was when I
had a den attached to my home…a writing den, and no one had access to that
unless they had their own special visa, applied for weeks in advance.’
25.
‘One has to confront history honestly.’
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