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Ben Okri
Nigerian
March 15, 1959
Poet
I was going to be a scientist.
Ben Okri
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Going
Scientist
To anyone who is homeless, I say, find a home.
Ben Okri
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Home
Who
Say
You cannot come to a Nigerian restaurant without having pepper soup.
Ben Okri
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You
Come
Without
To sustain your belief through situations that completely undermine it is quite something.
Ben Okri
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Your
Something
Through
Fire is one of my temperaments. It is behind all my work... Fire is a chemical presence.
Ben Okri
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Work
Behind
Fire
Some of my reactions are very Nigerian. I still believe that words are things.
Ben Okri
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Very
Things
Some
When I write a poem, I go into a state of self-forgetfulness, and something higher takes over; I like to call it my best self.
Ben Okri
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Best
Like
Go
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
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You
Than
World
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.
Ben Okri
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Religion
You
Me
I am one year older than Nigeria at 51. In a human life, 51 might be old. But it is very young for a nation. By that, I mean a Nigeria conscious of itself as a nation.
Ben Okri
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Life
Very
Than
The worst time was 1983. Love and life and everything went wrong. I reached absolute rock bottom. I saw the Minotaur at the bottom of the abyss. I learnt of the harshness of the world and its impartiality to human failure.
Ben Okri
Tags:
Time
Failure
Life
You see, I was told stories, we were all told stories as kids in Nigeria. We had to tell stories that would keep one another interested, and you weren't allowed to tell stories that everybody else knew. You had to dream up new ones.
Ben Okri
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You
Up
Had
