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" Seven is the magic figure, because that's a symbolic figure of my favorite deity, Ogun. "

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" My father was a schoolteacher, and so I had the advantage of both western educational instruction in the school, as well as what you might call the process of imbibing the traditional processes of education instruction around me. "

" I have a kind of magnetic attraction to situations of violence. "

" And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others. "

" No writer has a right to make that much money. Indeed, without diabolical assistance, no writer can. "

" I don't really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident. "

" 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. "

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

" I like my peace and quiet whenever I can grab it. "

" Just like birds, hunters know no borders. "

" I've done a lot of guerrilla theater in my time. "

" I consider the process of gestation just as important as when you're actually sitting down putting words to the paper. "

" I've always written plays for the purpose of getting something out of my system. "

" There is not a special imposition on writers to be activists. All that does is encourage writers to write propaganda. Propaganda can be written by anybody, including dictators. "

" My understanding of the creative process is simply that all cultures and all concerns meet at a certain point, the human point in which everything is related to one another. That has been my creative experience. I never know who's influencing me at any time. "

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

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

" 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. "

" History teaches us to beware of the excitation of the liberated and the injustices that often accompany their righteous thirst for justice. "

" There is something really horrific for any human being who feels he is being consumed by other people. I'm talking about a writer's critics, who don't address what you've written, but want to probe into your existence and magnify the trivia of your life without any sense of humor, without any sense of context. "

" After the death of the sadistic dictator Gen. Sanni Abacha in 1998, Nigeria underwent a one-year transitional military administration headed by Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar, who uncharacteristically bowed out precisely on the promised date for military disengagement. Did the military truly disengage, however? No. "

" I'm not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning, put a piece of paper in their typewriter machine and start writing. That I've never understood. "

" Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie. "

" I like to say, 'I spend one-third of my time in Nigeria, one-third in Europe or America, and one-third on a plane.' "

" I love beauty. But I like the beauty accidentally, not dished up, served up on a platter. "

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

" 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. "

" Politics, I believe, is a full-time occupation. "

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

" I take friendship very seriously. "

" 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. "