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What you see is what you make. What you see in a people is what you eventually create in them.
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To poison a nation, poison its stories. A demoralised nation tells demoralised stories to itself. Beware of the storytellers who are not fully conscious of the importance of their gifts, and who are irresponsible in the application of their art: they
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I think our childhood goes back thousands of years, farther back than the memory of any race.
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We can still astonish the gods in humanity
And be the stuff of future legends,
If we but dare to be real,
And have the courage to see
That this is the time to dream
The best dream of them all.
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One human life is deeper than the ocean. Strange fishes and sea-monsters and mighty plants live in the rock-bed of our spirits. The whole of human history is an undiscovered continent deep in our souls. There are dolphins, plants that dream, magic birds inside us. The sky is inside us. The earth is in us.
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Who knows, maybe this whole planet is an asylum, a penal realm. A place for hard cases.
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Bad things will happen and good things too. Your life will be full of surprises. Miracles happen only where there has been suffering. So taste your grief to the fullest. Don't try and press it down. Don't hide from it. Don't escape. It is life too. It is truth. But it will pass and time will put a strange honey in the bitterness. That's the way life goes.
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Each moment offered us clarity and liberation but we settled for the comforting shapes of legends, no matter how monstrous or useless.
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Born:
March 15, 1959
(age 65)
Bio:
Ben Okri is a Nigerian poet and novelist. Okri is considered one of the foremost African authors in the post-modern and post-colonial traditions and has been compared favourably to authors such as Salman Rushdie and Gabriel García Márquez.
Known for:
The Famished Road (1991)
Starbook (2007)
A Way of Being Free (1997)
Astonishing the gods (1995)
Songs of Enchantment (1993)
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