Charity . . . is the opium of the privileged.

While we do our good works let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.

My position is that serious and good art has always existed to help, to serve, humanity. Not to indict. I don't see how art can be called art if its purpose is to frustrate humanity.

Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.

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.

A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.