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" Looking at faces of people, one gets the feeling there's a lot of work to be done. "

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" One has a responsibility to clean up one's space and make it livable as far as one's own resources go. That includes not only material resources, but psychological resources: the commitment of time and a portion of your mind to something when you'd rather be doing something else. "

" The phenomenon of creativity, we know, is closely related to the ability to yoke together separate, and even seemingly incompatible, matrices. "

" If African film makers had one-tenth the amount commanded by film makers the world over - even the amount used by so-called shoestring film makers - I think we would see quite an explosion of African films on the world scene. "

" I don't have the sort of temperament that submits to Christianity or Islam. "

" The scales of reckoning with mortality are never evenly weighted, alas, and thus it is on the shoulders of the living that the burden of justice must continue to rest. "

" Books and all forms of writing have always been objects of terror to those who seek to suppress the truth. "

" Trading and religion have always been aligned together in the history of the world, and especially on the African continent. "

" We live in a materialist world, and materialism appeals so strongly to humanity, no matter where. "

" 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. "

" There's a kind of dynamic quality about theater and that dynamic quality expresses itself in relation to, first of all, the environment in which it's being staged; then the audience, the nature of the audience, the quality of the audience. "

" For me, justice is the prime condition of humanity. "

" You always assume for some strange reason that you need three meals a day. "

" Each time I think I've created time for myself, along comes a throwback to disrupt my private space. "

" I take friendship very seriously. "

" Rwanda, which is one of the younger independent states in Africa, must be regarded as a model of how great human trauma can be transformed to commence true reconstruction of people. Human trauma can lead to stunted growth and mass withdrawal. "

" Art is solace; art is vision, and when I pick up a literary work, I am a consumer of literature for its own sake. "

" The novel, for me, was an accident. I really don't consider myself a novelist. "

" Nigeria has had the misfortune - no, the fortune - of seeing the worst face of capitalism anywhere in Africa. The masses have seen it, they are disgusted, and they want an alternative. "

" I found, when I left, that there were others who felt the same way. We'd meet, they'd come and seek me out, we'd talk about the future. And I found that their depression and pessimism was every bit as acute as mine. "

" Some of the greatest uprisings and consequent civil wars in Mexico have centered squarely on the ownership of land. "

" The hand that dips into the bottom of the pot will eat the biggest snail. "

" A tiger does not shout its tigritude, it acts. "

" In the world of literature, I see prizes as more of a duty to the craft itself, rather than as something for the individual. "

" Education is lacking in most of those who pontificate. "

" But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That's all. "

" Well, first of all I'll say that I come alive best in theater. "

" 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. "

" Before you're a writer, you're a citizen, a human being, and therefore the weapons of the citizen are at your disposal to use or not use. "

" Just like birds, hunters know no borders. "