God hopes that we are going to love God back.

There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they're falling in.

When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.

Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.

Do your little bit of good where you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

You are either on the side of the oppressed or on the side of the oppressor. You can't be neutral.

If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

To remain neutral in situations of injustice is to be complicit in that injustice.

Our maturity will be judged by how well we are able to agree to disagree and yet continue to love one another, to care for one another, and cherish one another and seek the greater good of the other.

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

Before you wear a crown of gold, life sometimes makes you wear a crown of thorns.

Music awakens my spirit.

When you start with an insult and end with a compliment, most people only remember where you started.

Analyse it

I looked around and acknowledged that what you see around you is proof of what exists within you.

Painting, like passion, is a living voice.

Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.

It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.

The rhythm of life is a jazz rhythm

When we went in the late 1990s, Nigeria was still in a dictatorship. So we didn't go with a mission. It started really with a sort of blankness and open-endedness.