Nigerian - Poet | March 15, 1959 -
I lived rough, by my wits, was homeless, lived on the streets, lived on friends' floors, was happy, was miserable.
Ben Okri
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I was going to be a scientist.
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I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare.
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Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.
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The greatest religions convert the world through stories.
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The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret failure.
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The acknowledged legislators of the world take the world as given. They dislike mysteries, for mysteries cannot be coded, or legislated, and wonder cannot be made into law. And so these legislators police the accepted frontiers of things.
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I know that human beings are capable of anything.
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To anyone who is homeless, I say, find a home.
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The strange thing about Africa is how past, present and future come together in a kind of rough jazz, if you like.
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It is not important for me as a writer that you leave a piece of writing of mine with either an agreement or even a resonance with what I have said. What is important is that you leave with the resonance of what you have felt and what you thought in reaction to that.
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The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it's about us, it's about the reader.
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