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Ben Okri OBE FRSL is a Nigerian poet and novelist. Okri is considered one of the foremost African authors in the post-modern and post-colonial traditions, and has been compared favourably to authors such as Salman Rushdie and Gabriel García Márquez. Wikipedia  

✵ 15. March 1959
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Works

The Famished Road
Ben Okri: 13 quotes3 likes

Famous Ben Okri Quotes

“Without stories we would go mad. Life would lose its moorings or lose its orientations. even in silence we are living our stories”

Ben Okri

Source: Birds of Heaven

“The law is simple. Every experience is repeated or suffered till you experience it properly and fully the first time.”

Ben Okri

Source: Astonishing the Gods

“What you see is what you make. What you see in a people is what you eventually create in them.”

Ben Okri

Source: A Time for New Dreams

“If we could be pure dancers in spirit we would never be afraid to love, and we would love with strength and wisdom.”

Ben Okri

Source: Birds of Heaven

Ben Okri Quotes

“The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.”

Ben Okri

“We can redream this world and make the dream come real. Human beings are gods hidden from themselves.”

Ben Okri The Famished Road

Source: The Famished Road

“a dream can be the highest point of a life”

Ben Okri The Famished Road

Source: The Famished Road

“Don't neglect the gold in your own back yard.”

Ben Okri

“To see the madness and yet walk a perfect silver line…. That's what the true story-teller should be: a great guide, a clear mind, who can walk a silver line in hell or madness.”

Ben Okri

Source: Birds of Heaven

“We have not yet arrived, but every point at which we stop requires a re-definition of our destination.”

Ben Okri

Source: Tales of Freedom

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