159 Quotes by Ben Okri

He danced there like an overturned centipede.

They made me think. Everything has to fight to live. Rats work very hard. If we are not careful they will inherit the earth.

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.

The school-children were in their uniforms. A cock crowed repeatedly. Mum got her tray together. I was ready for school. Mum went down the street, swaying, moving a little sleepily, with one more burden added to her life. She was merely a detail in the poverty of our area.

The only power poor people have is their hunger.

One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity.