Top 982 Quotes & Sayings by Nigerian Authors - Page 16

I have always believed in myself. As a footballer, it is essential to have that belief.

You never say never. That's one of the lessons I've learned.

There is no safe blow to the head, especially for a child.

Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.

If I have an idea, I can actualize it through our political leaders.

It would have been more comfortable for us as a society if Anita Hill wasn't as intelligent, poised, and credible as she was.

The greatest religions convert the world through stories.

I reassure all Nigerians and the international community of our firm commitment to free, fair and credible elections. My commitment to free elections and one man, one vote remains unwavering.

I always go back to the fact that one man can make a difference. No matter what the issue, we always have the power to change it.

My mother was English. My parents met in Oxford in the '50s, and my mother moved to Nigeria and lived there. She was five foot two, very feisty and very English.

I'm grounded in who I am.

No economy can tolerate the level of corruption seen in Nigeria without consequences.

I get friends that ask that all the time, and I remember my mother asking me a couple of times, because there was no action during a game, 'did you play?' It's so weird. Everybody's like, 'Great game, great game.' And because I demand so much of myself, I'm like, 'Well, I didn't do that great, because I didn't have any stats.'

If this government is doing the right thing by fighting corruption, the Church should support it.

I have a show called 'First Gen' that David Oyelowo is executive producing.

For me, justice is the prime condition of humanity.

At the heart of 'The Famished Road' is a philosophical conundrum - for me, an essential one: what is reality? Everybody's reality is subjective; it's conditioned by upbringing, ideas, temperament, religion, what's happened to you.

You have good footballers coming out of Africa, West Africa, but they are not on the level that Eto'o played.

In my head, racism was an issue that needed to be fixed by the racists. Like you needed to convince that person one at a time rather than a systemic thing that needs a whole group effort.

The Catholic faith never changes. But the language and mode of manifesting this one faith can change according to peoples, times and places.

Listening to the type of music I grew up with, like King Sunny Ade, Fela Kuti and experiencing different things and conditions and hardship, as well as the good times in Nigeria, has definitely carved me into who I am.

The phenomenon of creativity, we know, is closely related to the ability to yoke together separate, and even seemingly incompatible, matrices.

Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.

I am a person who believes in asking questions, in not conforming for the sake of conforming. I am deeply dissatisfied - about so many things, about injustice, about the way the world works - and in some ways, my dissatisfaction drives my storytelling.

Each of my books is different. Deliberately... I wanted to create my society, my people, in their fullness.

When it comes down to digging, can't nobody dig as hard as I can dig.

I preferred to study those subjects that were of interest to me.

I'm still very interested in the things that happened in the '80s and the '70s because I think that they were very important years for Nigeria. In the '80s, we were under a military dictatorship for quite a while, and I think that the way we engage with our country as citizens was shaped in many ways by the events that took place in that time.

I love essays, but they're not always the best way to communicate to a larger audience.

I've run a very successful business, and I think I can also run a very successful team.

I'm really interested in independent publishers and memes and mini comics. But even before that, I was interested in Japanese manga and anime.

I love, love, love playing football. I was always this way, even though I was never able to watch the big clubs as a kid.

It was Cosmos who actually told Crystal Palace about me. Palace came to have a look, liked what they saw, and they took it from there.

One has a responsibility to clean up one's space and make it livable as far as one's own resources go. That includes not only material resources, but psychological resources: the commitment of time and a portion of your mind to something when you'd rather be doing something else.

I can write with authority only about what I know well, which means that I end up using surface details of my own life in my fiction.

My son is 6. I wouldn't let my six-year-old son near any football field. And if any coach asks my son to play football, I'll sue that coach, and I'll sue the school.

If I make a mistake I try to use it as a lesson and try to improve on it.

Fiction and poetry are my first loves, but the really beautiful lyrical essay can do so much that other forms cannot.

What I find problematic is the suggestion that when, say, Madonna adopts an African child, she is saving Africa. It's not that simple. You have to do more than go there and adopt a child or show us pictures of children with flies in their eyes. That simplifies Africa.

We will encourage our countrymen to stay at home, work hard, and make a respectable living at home.

I came to England in 1962 as a very young bride, in my teens, hoping just to stay two years and go back.

It's crazy how a whole lot of African artists work. Big respect to everyone that does it, but I have not heard anything that really cuts across. We're trying to do that.

I read mostly Irish, African, Japanese, South American, and African writers. You can count on Scandinavian literature for a certain kind of darkness, a modern mythic style.

When I'm back home, all I wear is African fabric. All I really rock is the traditional stuff.

The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.

For athletes, it's extremely tough to trust people with your finances. It's so easy to be victimized.

At times, I didn't play, but I was still the best - that's how I saw it. If I get 15, 20 minutes, I will do what I have to do and make an impact.

I've several times had jobs that I thought were going to be my big break, and it didn't pan out.

I grew up in Africa, in Nigeria. I never knew, I never had any reasonable encounter with football. I saw football on Sky News. I thought there were people dressed like extraterrestrials, you know, like they were going to Mars or something, headgears and shoulder pads. And I wondered why, as a child, why did they have to dress that way.

You don't have to cheat or steal to be successful in life, but you must be ready to convert your challenges to opportunity.

Take advantage of educating yourself.

I was successful materially, but I know life is much more than worldly success. I saw all these blessings God had given me. The way to give thanks is obedience to God.

Lasting love has to be built on mutual regard and respect. It is about seeing the other person. I am very interested in relationships and, when I watch couples, sometimes I can sense a blindness has set in. They have stopped seeing each other. It is not easy to see another person.

I was a political science major before I transferred into film school.

Anytime you leave something you've done and where you've been for nearly a decade, it's going to be different.

I censor myself all the time.

Remarkable is the greater openness of the Catholic Church towards people of other religious traditions and persuasions. The development has not been without problems, since some people have resisted it and others have pushed openness beyond the desirable point.

I wanted to write about extended family systems. You have people you can fall back on, and it's good. But what if you don't fit into what is expected of you?

By the time I finished school, I found out I wasn't qualified to study anything but music.

I don't think Michael had to retire for us to get the spotlight, because when you win, it commands attention.