When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.

I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.

I don't care about age very much. I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.

People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it, not when it's around your neck.

Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story even if on the surface it's far removed from your situation.

The people you see in Nigeria today have always lived as neighbors in the same space for as long as we can remember. So it's a matter of settling down, lowering the rhetoric, the level of hostility in the rhetoric is too high.