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Vote: | Ghetto-dwellers are the great fantasists. There was an extraordinary vibrancy there, an imaginative life. When you are that poor, all you've got left is your belief in the imagination. |
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Vote: | I don't think I can make people understand what my writing is about. That really belongs to time and the individual. |
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Vote: | I lived rough, by my wits, was homeless, lived on the streets, lived on friends' floors, was happy, was miserable. |
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Vote: | I was going to be a scientist. |
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Vote: | I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare. |
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Vote: | Literature doesn't have a country. Shakespeare is an African writer. His Falstaff, for example, is very African in his appetite for life, his largeness of spirit. The characters of Turgenev are ghetto dwellers. Dickens' characters are Nigerians. |
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Vote: | Our time here is magic! It's the only space you have to realize whatever it is that is beautiful, whatever is true, whatever is great, whatever is potential, whatever is rare, whatever is unique, in. It's the only space. |
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Vote: | Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they'll only see their narrow range reflected in it. |
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Vote: | We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings. |
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Vote: | You see, I was told stories, we were all told stories as kids in Nigeria. We had to tell stories that would keep one another interested, and you weren't allowed to tell stories that everybody else knew. You had to dream up new ones. |
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Ben Okri (born March 15, 1959) is a Nigerian poet and novelist. He was educated at Essex University. His first novel, Flowers and Shadows, was published in 1980. Okri won the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1991 for The Famished Road, and was awarded an OBE in 2001.
Ben Okri has been termed as a magic realist although he has shrugged off that tag. He writes by letting his experiences be led on by imagination.
his works of poetry include African Elegy(1992) and Mental Fight (1999)
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