"I am not fighting for success, just to get more beauty out of myself and share it with more people."
-Ben Okri
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"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.“
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"Politics is the art of the possible creativity is the art of the impossible."
-Ben Okri
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"I'm conscious of a series of circles working its way through my life. And at this particular moment I have come round to the beginning of my writing cycle. It begins with poetry. There's hardly a day that goes past on which I don't write poetry."
-Ben Okri
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"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."
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"The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret failure."
-Ben Okri
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"The strange thing about Africa is how past, present and future come together in a kind of rough jazz, if you like."
-Ben Okri
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"A concerted effort to preserve our heritage is a vital link to our cultural, educational, aesthetic, inspirational, and economic legacies - all of the things that quite literally make us who we are."
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"I've done a lot of albums and I kinda know when I'm onto something that was inspirational for me to record and create, and this was one of those projects where I really enjoyed making the album."
-Lee Ritenour
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"My tastes and inspirational artists were always rather eclectic and diverse."
-Taylor Dayne
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