Top 982 Quotes & Sayings by Nigerian Authors - Page 5

Everything in life is about confidence. The more you have, the further you'll go usually.

I always keep a ball in the car. You never know.

Black women all over the world should re-unite and re-examine the way history has portrayed us.

The first audition my manger sent me on was 'The Hunger Games,' and I got the role.

I go to the ocean to calm down, to reconnect with the creator, to just be happy.

We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings.

I have always dreamt of winning the Africa Cup of Nations and the fact that I am representing my country and I am always proud to wear the green white green.

Before 'Insecure,' I was a wedding emcee - a host for weddings. That's a world that a lot of people are not familiar with.

I think the saddest thing is how people take on guilt and blame that isn't theirs or doesn't belong to them, and how hard it is to forgive yourself.

Chronic means long term. Traumatic means associated with trauma. Encephalopathy means a bad brain.

When I started supporting Man United, Dwight Yorke and Andy Cole were my heroes growing up.

Anyone who knows me back from when I was young knows me and my siblings supported Man United, we would pay to go and watch Man United play.

There are no doubts that, the situation in the country today, indicates that there is much more work to do in the process of reforming the political economy and improving the quality of life of our people and communities.

It's one thing to get somebody down on the ground, but it's another thing to finish him there.

I have a lot of tailors. If I want something made in 12 hours, it will be made in 12 hours.

Fire Yourself. Outsource some of your life. Because you know what won't be cute on a tombstone? 'Her grind was impeccable, and she did it all by herself.'

Wole Soyinka's 'Death and the King's Horseman' is a play I go back to and I read often.

A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.

Life is difficult in Africa, even getting three square meals.

I like me some Bape, you know. But I wear anything, to be honest. Adyn, Rick Owens, Givenchy, anything. I shop from everywhere.

I don't know any other way to live but to wake up every day armed with my convictions, not yielding them to the threat of danger and to the power and force of people who might despise me.

You can't just set the vision, take a nap, and not keep working on making your vision happen. Your intention has to be backed by work.

In my early days in school, I had no shoes, no school bags. There were days I had only one meal... I walked miles and crossed rivers to school every day. Didn't have power, didn't have generators, studied with lanterns, but I never despaired.

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 a world that you're suffering in.

In Nigeria, if you say you're a singer, people say, 'So what? Everyone sings.' In Germany, my voice stood out more.

I'm the type of person who's never said never.

If a film isn't really talking about who we are and what our psychologies are, then we're probably not that interested in it, actually.

I love writing songs.

Chelsea is one of the biggest football clubs in the world.

People just don't want to pay to see players diving around.

If you followed the media you'd think that everybody in Africa was starving to death, and that's not the case; so it's important to engage with the other Africa.

Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people.

My grand uncle was a traditional priest, and he would always say to me as a kid, 'We stand in our own light,' which essentially for him meant we were entirely responsible for a lot of what happens to us and for the ways in which our lives play out.

My position in football was cornerback, and what your job is as a cornerback is to read the person that's in front of you - read their body language and anticipate what's going to happen next.

One thing about America is Americans are real people. So it's like, if they see that you're real, this is real, then they're gonna relate to it.

Nigerian politics has been, since the military dictatorships, largely non-ideological. Rather than a battle of ideas, it is about who can pump in the most money and buy the most access.

I'm always late.

A mob is not, as is so often said, mindless. A mob is single-minded.

From 1967 to '70, Nigeria fought a war - the Nigeria-Biafra war. And in the middle of that war, I was 14 years old. We spent much of our time with my mother cooking. For the army - my father joined the army as a brigadier - the Biafran army. We were on the Biafran side.

I have always known that I've got the ability to play in a big club like Chelsea.

If you are starving and young and in search of answers as to why your life is so difficult, fundamentalism can be alluring. We know this for a fact because former members of Boko Haram have admitted it: They offer impressionable young people money and the promise of food, while the group's mentors twist their minds with fanaticism.

The most successful of the nations of the world are those who do not fall into the lure of secession but who, through thick and thin, forge unity in diversity.

There is a tendency around the world today to copy TV culture. And that is not always a virtue.

How many shows on TV do you see young black people, both women and men, really embody a full-fledged human being, flaws and all?

All that matters is how you see yourself.

My ideas are threatening to the government.

He is a legend - not just Africa and Chelsea but the whole world. Didier is a great player.

One out of every 100 American men is HIV positive. The rate of infection has reached epidemic proportions in 40 developing nations.

The reason is that till date, in spite of advances in information technology and strategies of information, the written word in the form of books still remains one of humanity's most enduring legacies.

I don't believe in paying full price for clothing.

I wanted to become a mathematician, physicist or astronomer.

I must be true to myself within my music or I would be a liar.

The U.S. government understands the importance of Nigeria in Africa and the world at large.

When I was growing up, I knew a lot about football because I saw some of my grown-up siblings watching football on TV and they supported Manchester United.

'Imposter Syndrome' is the feeling of wearing a mask and playing a role that one does not feel at home in. It is when you feel like you or your work is a fluke and that you're a dwarf amongst giants. Many of us have this, especially when we're in some sort of creative industry.

I want to work with non-profits that stimulate growth to the community. Whether it is economic growth, intellectual, or freedom.

If you ask me to summarise our mission, I would put it this way: We were a military regime that sought to lay the foundations for freedom and liberty in a complex society.

I used to have two double espressos a day. I gave that up, had headaches for five days but now I'm feeling great.

Gender inequality is a global issue that affects everyone.

When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.