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Ben Okri Quotes

Ben Okri quotes

Nigerian Poet, Writer March 15, 1959

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The acknowledged legislators of the world take the world as given. They dislike mysteries, for mysteries cannot be coded, or legislated, and wonder cannot be made into law. And so these legislators police the accepted frontiers of things. Ben Okri
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. Ben Okri
Ben Okri quote: "Don't neglect the gold in your own back yard."
Don't neglect the gold in your own back yard. Ben Okri
Ben Okri quote: "I know that human beings are capable of anything."
I know that human beings are capable of anything. Ben Okri
Ben Okri quote: "What you see is what you make. What you see in a people is..."
What you see is what you make. What you see in a people is what you eventually create in them. Ben Okri
Ben Okri quote: "To sustain your belief through situations that completely..."
To sustain your belief through situations that completely undermine it is quite something. Ben Okri
The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing. Ben Okri
Ben Okri quote: "The greatest religions convert the world through stories."
The greatest religions convert the world through stories. Ben Okri
Ben Okri quote: "A tolerable hell is better than an impossible heaven."
A tolerable hell is better than an impossible heaven. Ben Okri
Ben Okri quote: "Who knows, maybe this whole planet is an asylum, a penal..."
Who knows, maybe this whole planet is an asylum, a penal realm. A place for hard cases. Ben Okri
Ben Okri quote: "I was going to be a scientist."
I was going to be a scientist. Ben Okri
Ben Okri quote: "We have not yet arrived, but every point at which we stop..."
We have not yet arrived, but every point at which we stop requires a re-definition of our destination. Ben Okri

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