Top 47 Quotes by Ben Okri

About Ben Okri

These are some quotes by Nigerian author Ben Okri Poet, who was born on March 15, 1959.

To anyone who is homeless, I say, find a home.

To anyone who is homeless, I say, find a home.

Ben Okri

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

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

Ben Okri

The strange thing about Africa is how past, present and future come together in a kind of rough jazz, if you like.

The strange thing about Africa is how past, present and future come together in a kind of rough jazz, if you like.

Ben Okri

I study people all the time. For some reason, we're not very good at seeing what's there or hearing what we're hearing.

I study people all the time. For some reason, we're not very good at seeing what's there or hearing what we're hearing.

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.

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

I became a sceptic of one way of seeing the world. And I think it is what started me in my awareness that any worldview is superstitious.

I became a sceptic of one way of seeing the world. And I think it is what started me in my awareness that any worldview is superstitious.

Ben Okri

One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. We had a bit of a rollercoaster life with some really challenging financial periods. He was always unshaken, completely tranquil, the same ebullient, laughing, jovial man.

Ben Okri

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