Literature doesn't have a country. Shakespeare is an African writer. His Falstaff, for example, is very African in his appetite for life, his largeness of spirit. The characters of Turgenev are ghetto dwellers. Dickens characters are Nigerians.
We have not yet arrived, but every point at which we stop requires a re-definition of our destination. - Ben Okri
We have not yet arrived, but every point at which we stop requires a re-definition of our destination.
- Ben Okri
A people are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves. Sick storytellers can make nations sick. Without stories we would go mad. … - Ben Okri
A people are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves. Sick storytellers can make nations sick. Without stories we would go mad. …
When you can imagine you begin to create and when you begin to create you realize that you can create a world that you prefer to live in, rather than… - Ben Okri
When you can imagine you begin to create and when you begin to create you realize that you can create a world that you prefer to live in, rather than…
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 g… - Ben Okri
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 g…
Only those who truly love and who are truly strong can sustain their lives as a dream. You dwell in your own enchantment. Life throws stones at you, … - Ben Okri
Only those who truly love and who are truly strong can sustain their lives as a dream. You dwell in your own enchantment. Life throws stones at you, …
Stories are the secret reservoir of values: change the stories individuals and nations live by and tell themselves, and you change the individuals an… - Ben Okri
Stories are the secret reservoir of values: change the stories individuals and nations live by and tell themselves, and you change the individuals an…
Beware of the stories you read or tell; subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they are altering your world. - Ben Okri
Beware of the stories you read or tell; subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they are altering your world.
To poison a nation, poison its stories. A demoralised nation tells demoralised stories to itself. Beware of the storytellers who are not fully consci… - Ben Okri
To poison a nation, poison its stories. A demoralised nation tells demoralised stories to itself. Beware of the storytellers who are not fully consci…
Maybe there are only three kinds of stories: those we live, those we tell, and those that help our souls fly upwards to a greater life. - Ben Okri
Maybe there are only three kinds of stories: those we live, those we tell, and those that help our souls fly upwards to a greater life.
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