“You have the entire gamut of human experience captured in the mythology of the Yoruba. This is what makes the Yoruba mythology a natural source material for me in my creative endeavours.”

Let’s say there are prospects for a new Nigeria, but I don’t think we have a new Nigeria yet.

History teaches us to beware of the excitation of the liberated and the injustices that often accompany their righteous thirst for justice.

My father used to tell me stories before I fell asleep. When the children would gather, at a certain point, I had a tendency to make up my own elementary variations on stories I had heard, or to invent totally new ones.

To achieve any change in the minds of the youth, there must be reorientation in terms of materialistic tendencies, corruption and crime generally.

I never hesitated, as a student, in embracing the necessity of violence. In South Africa, I didn’t just accept it; I looked forward to it as a mission.

Religion has really spawned some monsters. It always has, historically. Go all the way back to the Inquisition, you know, the Crusades, the Jehad and so on.

Don’t take shadows too seriously. Reality is your only safety. Continue to reject illusion.

Be yourself. Ultimately just be yourself.

The youth should come together to challenge the status quo. They must not give up.

But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That’s all.

Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.

As a global citizen, I sometimes feel like denying my identity.

Intolerance has become, I think, the reigning ideology of the world today, the intolerance versus intolerance and it’s taken on lethal proportions.

For me, justice is the prime condition of humanity.

We all have our individual artistic temperaments as well as partisanships in creative directions. And we have strong opinions on the merits of the products of our occupation.

When you are looking for corruption, you should look at the entire stratum of the society, while some forms of corruption are direct, others are indirect.

Such was not quite the condition of Timothy’s on the Bayswater Road, for Timothy’s soul still had one foot in Timothy Forsyte’s body, and Smither kept the atmosphere unchanging, of camphor and port wine and house whose windows are only opened to air it twice a day.

What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.

My favorite makeup look was for my ‘Eyes Wide Open’ video done by Torsten Witte. It was so dramatic and definitely captured the magic of the video.

If we capture any of these ISIS killers alive, they are going to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and we’re going to find out everything they know, because when I’m president, unlike Barack Obama, we will keep this country safe.

The devil knows if he can capture your thought life he has won a mighty victory over you.

The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.

When I am free to train and free to move, I feel like a gorilla in the jungle. Then, when there are a bunch of media obligations, I feel like I have been captured and am being kept on display.

artists try to say things that can’t be said. in a fragile net of words, gestures, or colors, we hope to capture a feeling.