The blatant aggressiveness of theocracies I find distressing, because I grew up when Christians, Muslim and animists lived peacefully together.

Human life has meaning only to that degree and as long as it is lived in the service of humanity.

The phenomenon of creativity, we know, is closely related to the ability to yoke together separate, and even seemingly incompatible, matrices.

Seven is the magic figure, because that's a symbolic figure of my favorite deity, Ogun.

I love beauty. But I like the beauty accidentally, not dished up, served up on a platter.

I don't know any other way to live but to wake up every day armed with my convictions, not yielding them to the threat of danger and to the power and force of people who might despise me.