People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.
In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasn't perhaps completely whole, that something was left out.
Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively.
People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own history and their own experience.
Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story even if on the surface it's far removed from your situation.
Only the story can continue beyond the war and the warrior. The story outlives the sound of the war drum... The story is our escort. Without it we are blind... It is the thing that sets us apart from cattle...
If you don't like someone's story, write your own. If you don't like what somebody says, say what it is you don't like.
If you don't like someone's story, write your own.
It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is the mark on the face that sets one people apart from their neighbors.
There is no story that is not true, [...] The world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abomination with others.
It is only the story...that saves our progeny from blundering like blind beggars into the spikes of the cactus fence.The story is our escort;without it,we are blind.Does the blind man own his escort?No,neither do we the story;rather,it is the story that owns us.
If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all.
There is no story that is not true.