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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- I am not fighting for success, just to get more beauty out of myself and share it with more people.
- Don't despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed, if you see them perish. Because the best things are always growing in secret.
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