The energies of Lagos life- creative, malevolent, ambiguous- converge at the bus stops

I deeply respect American sentimentality, the way one respects a wounded hippo. You must keep an eye on it, for you know it is deadly.

Writing as writing. Writing as rioting. Writing as righting. On the best days, all three.

The White Savior Industrial Complex is not about justice. It is about having a big emotional experience that validates privilege.

The white savior supports brutal policies in the morning, founds charities in the afternoon, and receives awards in the evening.

To be alive, it seemed to me, as I stood there in all kinds of sorrow, was to be both original and reflection, and to be dead was to be split off, to be reflection alone.

Things don't go away just because you choose to forget them.

I just realized that we're facing here is an empathy gap. And this was just another way to generate conversation about something that nobody wanted to look at.

Love perhaps includes the promise that when the mob comes for you I'll go against the mob.

The site was a palimpsest, as was all the city, written, erased, rewritten.

I'm not trying to be in your face and take a picture that is like a journalistic kind of image. I got interested in a kind of complicated, compiled, visual field.

I don't think it was pain that made [Vincent Van Gogh] great - I think his painting brought him whatever happiness he had.

And in the endthe love you takeis equal tothe love you make

You never think it’s going to happen to you, do you?

Either be a true friend or a mere stranger: a true friend will delight to do good--a mere stranger will do no harm.

I have always loved trouser suits. It's something I absolutely believe in for women.

Of all aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment.

I think there comes a point where you have to grow up and get over yourself, lighten up…and forgive

Of course, in order to make art, the frustration of not working has to be greater than the frustration of working.

I have the greater glory of God, the history is His story, that He is in charge and ultimately He knows what He's doing.

What bothers me about TV is that it tends to take our minds off our minds.