"A people are as healthy and confident as……" — Ben Okri
"A people are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves. Sick storytellers can make nations sick. Without stories we would go mad. Life would lose it’s moorings or orientation... Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart larger."
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89 Quotes by Ben Okri
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In the beginning there was a river. The river became a road and the road branched out to the whole…
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To poison a nation, poison its stories. A demoralised nation tells demoralised stories to itself. Beware of the storytellers who…
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