"The trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely a failure of leadership."

"Literature is not a luxury, but a necessity."

"Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him."

"There is that proverb that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter."

"The earth is not a place for us to conquer, but to cherish."