Be strict with yourself but least reproachful of others and complaint is kept afar.
When I say war, I'm not talking about mental war; I'm talking about totally eliminating the obstacles to transformation of our children.
There is only one home to the life of a river-mussel; there is only one home to the life of a tortoise; there is only one shell to the soul of man: there is only one world to the spirit of our race. If that world leaves its course and smashes on boulders of the great void, whose world will give us shelter?
I think Nigerians got it wrong from independence as people became so conscious of the divisions because we wanted so much to satisfy the plurality of interests. I will say, we neglected the importance of real value, human value and the quality of potential in human beings and we contrived phrases like geographical spread, regional quota, etc and allowed mediocrity to reign. I think that is the problem that we are dealing with till today.
I consider the process of gestation just as important as when you're actually sitting down putting words to the paper.
See, even despite pious statements to the contrary, much of the industrialized world has not yet come to terms with the recognition of the fallacy of what I call the strong man syndrome.
Romance is the sweetening of the soul With fragrance offered by the stricken heart.
I curled closer to May, comforted by her warmth.
I write 1,000 words a day first thing in the morning but I cannot write 240 characters to describe a piece that I spent six weeks working on with a producer.
As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.
That knave preserves the pearl in his purse who considers all people purse-cuts.