Top 982 Quotes & Sayings by Nigerian Authors - Page 14

Books and all forms of writing have always been objects of terror to those who seek to suppress the truth.

My heart's desire is to be recognised in Nigeria.

I want Dong Hyun Kim. He's a grappler, he's a strong stand-up fighter, and I think that would be a great fight. I think I beat him every and anywhere.

I knew 'Ojuelegba' was a good song, but I didn't expect it to blow up the way that it did.

The best novels are those that are important without being like medicine; they have something to say, are expansive and intelligent but never forget to be entertaining and to have character and emotion at their centre.

If you're coming to do an interview with me, you should know about me. It's not that it's 'cos I'm Wizkid; I'd even hate it if you were coming to interview my friend and asked him the same question. You're here for an interview, so you should know who you're doing the interview with.

The givers of most of the corruption in Africa are from outside Africa.

One of the difficulties of photography is that it is much better at being explicit than at being reticent.

Unfortunately, the true force which propels our endless political disputes, our constant struggles for political advantage, is often not our burning concern for democracy, it is often of our dedication to the principle of the rule of law.

Gangs are a part of living in Los Angeles, but you can exist in Inglewood or Culver City or anywhere else, without joining one.

You need a community to succeed. In the back of every book is an acknowledgments page full of all the people it took to get that writer to the book you're holding.

I've always seen myself as a midfielder but wherever I'm being told to play in the middle or somewhere, I will always give my best.

Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.

I meet with retired football players. Some are well-dressed, some are well-spoken, but when you talk to them personally, they will admit to you that they are having problems. But they are managing their problems. They have impaired memory, they're having mood problems. They are being treated by their psychiatrists.

I support Barcelona because I watched the Spanish league.

We still have a lot of work to do as African artists to get more recognition in the U.K. and the U.S., but right now, definitely, we're getting the recognition. The thing is we have to earn it. Keep working. Stay working.

We have partnered with hospitals. We do check-ups. We talk to the parents - we educate them - and at the same time, we take the kids to other countries for operations. The goal of the foundation is to build our own cardiac hospitals in Africa, starting in Nigeria.

I was born in Owerri and grew up in the east of Nigeria, in Imo state. You could say I was a 'street boy': we grew up on the street, played on the street, did everything out on the street. It was a difficult life altogether, but that's how we grew up.

There are no limits, man.

Corruption has been tolerated for too long now, and with Buhari, we will, for the first time ever, have a president who will fight corruption. He will act so that people will be deterred from corruption.

Not to be purple, but I've never been a 'bad boy' kind of girl. I like manners.

Fear has a very concrete power of keeping us from doing and saying the things that are our purpose.

I love writing about monsters and food.

One of my feet is a whole size longer than the other. One is size ten, the other is size eleven.

After my primary school education, I started gathering little children by visiting parents to ask if they wanted somebody to care for their kids by teaching them the Bible. I have never attended any seminary school or Bible college in my life.

I'm from the south side of Nigeria, a place called Port Harcourt City... No one ever makes it out of there. I wanted to put it on the map.

Being quiet is comfortable. Keeping things the way they've been is comfortable. And all comfort has done is maintain the status quo.

We regard America and Europe as old friends. We keep old friends, but we make new friends in Japan, India, and China.

I have had it all over the years, being told I'm not good enough. So whenever the chance comes I always try and prove I should be starting.

The gospel needs to be preached all over the world. You cannot light a candle and put it under a roof.

What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens - whether people are of a different ethnicity or gender.

I honestly never wanted to come to America. It wasn't part of my goal as an actor.

My position is that serious and good art has always existed to help, to serve, humanity. Not to indict. I don't see how art can be called art if its purpose is to frustrate humanity.

There's nothing like being on a massive-budget film where you don't know anything, and there's a million people, and no one's communicating.

I believe the UFC was sold based on their performance and the services they've provided, so if a company comes in and buys it, they just bought the blueprints of their success. I believe that WME-IMG bought the UFC because of its structure and success.

'Children of Blood and Bone' is basically 'Black Panther' with magic.

I pray a lot and it has helped me throughout my whole career to stay calm and focused.

As a physician, I'm somewhat an advocate of patients. How come, before Mike Webster, no NFL player was told or knew that there was an intrinsic risk of brain damage from playing football?

We didn't have a television at home. Even the people who did have televisions wouldn't have the right channels to show the games. So if you wanted to watch football you had to pay to watch the games at the local sports centre. You would get hundreds of people paying to watch, all at the same place.

Where the foreign exchange is not available, we are cutting down our operations. For example, we had a vegetable oil refinery; we have shut it down. We had a tomato-based processing plant; we have shut it down.

My type of basketball is about how to create space, how to maneuver, how to get your shot off.

Fire is one of my temperaments. It is behind all my work... Fire is a chemical presence.

I believe that, just naturally, I'm a very soft-spoken person. Everyone tells me that on a daily basis - 'Speak up, we can't hear you,' or 'Elaborate on this.' But that's just how I am.

What I can confirm is that I will always give a 100 per cent for Nigeria like I do at my club.

I pretty much only wear high heels.

If I don't get at least one e-mail every ten minutes, I feel unloved. Even junk mail makes me feel seen. Sad, I know. Sigh.

A healthy smile has always been important to me.

I believe in pan-Africanism. This means that in many things - the judiciary, sports, economics and trade - we want Africanism to be involved, which is basically more freedom for the people.

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

The company Liberated People represents just not liberation of different nations around the world; it can be special liberation days. It can be what the company represents and helps highlight someone's personal liberation date.

Never say 'I went to Harvard.' Say 'I schooled in the Boston area.'

I don't know what can be done about knife crime, gang culture and people carrying weapons because it's a world I don't know about, but I hope that people decide to disarm and walk away from conflict.

I love fashion as much as I love basketball! It is a great joy for me to express myself through designing my own collection.

I write from real life. I am an unrepentant eavesdropper and a collector of stories. I record bits of overheard dialogue.

The way our government handled the Chibok girls case goes beyond an election matter. This is not a one-time issue we discuss over elections. We need to have a deeper conversation about what kind of a nation we want to be.

I feel like I present the way I need to present in order to survive and feel like I can navigate.

It is better we disintegrate in peace and not in pieces.

With the Internet, there are so many ways to connect with other writers who will be some of your best friends and best sources of support for your entire life.

That women are mysterious and unknowable is something every young man grows up believing. Men, on the other hand, never think of themselves as mysterious or confusing, and we are often at a loss as to why women want to figure us out.

Being conscious of Global Blackness is knowing that we are not an island of our struggle but a nation of our triumphs. That's blackness to me.