Quotes by Nigerian Authors - Page 30

Sometimes we live as if we are blindfolded.
Sunday Adelaja
Life has its demands from every one of us who live on planet earth.
Sunday Adelaja
When you live by the demands and supply of life, your life becomes easily predictable.
Sunday Adelaja
Live in a way that would not leave us regretting after so many years on earth.
Sunday Adelaja
Live a life that will make you look back in old age at your life and grin in satisfaction.
Sunday Adelaja
Live the life of maximum impact.
Sunday Adelaja
Live in such a way that you would be certain that you have derived maximum from life
Sunday Adelaja
To live is to die. To die is to live. To avoid death, is to avoid living.
Sunday Adelaja
Live your lives in such a way that you would be sure you are productive, effective and satisfied on all levels.
Sunday Adelaja
To obey the serpent is to live in once upon a time glory of God
Sunday Adelaja
If you live a righteous life, then you should be exalted above situations and circumstances in life
Sunday Adelaja
The lifestyle you live is a function of what you have discovered
Sunday Adelaja
We are to live for the dominion of God’s kingdom
Sunday Adelaja
To be irrelevant is to categorize your live into separate pursuit
Sunday Adelaja
To live in purpose is to understand the moment of conception
Sunday Adelaja
Only a changed person can live according to the law
Sunday Adelaja
To live a kingdom live on earth is to live by principles
Sunday Adelaja
To violate the law of love is to live in un-forgiveness
Sunday Adelaja
To declare the raw truth is to live in dominion
Sunday Adelaja
To flourish in life is to live according to the laws of the kingdom that God ordained
Sunday Adelaja
To Embrace The Kingdom Principle Is To Live A Life Of Superiority
Sunday Adelaja
To Live In The Atmosphere Of The Covered Glory Is To Acknowledge God As A Restorer
Sunday Adelaja
To Live Large Is To Live The Kingdom Life
Sunday Adelaja
To reveal the necessity of the kingdom to others is to live by it
Sunday Adelaja
Developing your unique thought to the level of being appreciated and adopted by the world - that's genius.
Ogwo David Emenike
I hear preached in our charismatic churches, which basically borders on sowing and reaping, giving and receiving. I thought there must be a different format to that message
Sunday Adelaja
A thought can be cast down by speaking out loud words of resistance and words of God.
Sunday Adelaja
Very little is given to how we should think about essential matters
Sunday Adelaja
You should not think on a small scale
Sunday Adelaja
We are treasure chests with more jewels inside than we can imagine.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
As they walked out of the store, Ifemelu said, “I was waiting for her to ask ‘Was it the one with two eyes or the one with two legs?’ Why didn’t she just ask ‘Was it the black girl or the white girl?’”Ginika laughed. “Because this is America. You’re supposed to pretend that you don’t notice certain things.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
She recognized in Kelsey the nationalism of liberal Americans who copiously criticized America but did not like you to do so; they expected you to be silent and grateful, and always reminded you of how much better than wherever you had come from America was.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
It felt strange to call them directly, to hear her father’s “Hello?” after the second ring, and when he heard her voice, he raised his, almost shouting, as he always did with international calls. Her mother liked to take the phone out to the verandah, to make sure the neighbors overheard: “Ifem, how is the weather in America?
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The best thing about America is that it gives you space. I like that. I like that you buy into the dream, it's a lie but you buy into it and that's all that matters.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Every part of Nigeria is blessed.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
My Fellow Non-American Blacks: In America, You Are Black, Baby Dear Non-American Black, when you make the choice to come to America, you become black. Stop arguing. Stop saying I’m Jamaican or I’m Ghanaian. America doesn’t care. So what if you weren’t “black” in your country? You’re in America now. We all have our moments of initiation into the Society of Former Negroes. Mine was in a class in undergrad when I was asked to give the black perspective, only I had no idea what that was. So I just made something up. And admit it—you say “I’m not black” only because you know black is at the bottom of America’s race ladder. And you want none of that. Don’t deny now. What if being black had all the privileges of being white? Would you still say “Don’t call me black, I’m from Trinidad”? I didn’t think so. So you’re black, baby. And here’s the deal with becoming black: You must show that you are offended when such words as “watermelon” or “tar baby” are used in jokes, even if you don’t know what the hell is being talked about—and since you are a Non-American Black, the chances are that you won’t know. (In undergrad a white classmate asks if I like watermelon, I say yes, and another classmate says, Oh my God that is so racist, and I’m confused. “Wait, how?”) You must nod back when a black person nods at you in a heavily white area. It is called the black nod. It is a way for black people to say “You are not alone, I am here too.” In describing black women you admire, always use the word “STRONG” because that is what black women are supposed to be in America. If you are a woman, please do not speak your mind as you are used to doing in your country. Because in America, strong-minded black women are SCARY. And if you are a man, be hyper-mellow, never get too excited, or somebody will worry that you’re about to pull a gun. When you watch television and hear that a “racist slur” was used, you must immediately become offended. Even though you are thinking “But why won’t they tell me exactly what was said?” Even though you would like to be able to decide for yourself how offended to be, or whether to be offended at all, you must nevertheless be very offended. When a crime is reported, pray that it was not committed by a black person, and if it turns out to have been committed by a black person, stay well away from the crime area for weeks, or you might be stopped for fitting the profile. If a black cashier gives poor service to the non-black person in front of you, compliment that person’s shoes or something, to make up for the bad service, because you’re just as guilty for the cashier’s crimes. If you are in an Ivy League college and a Young Republican tells you that you got in only because of Affirmative Action, do not whip out your perfect grades from high school. Instead, gently point out that the biggest beneficiaries of Affirmative Action are white women. If you go to eat in a restaurant, please tip generously. Otherwise the next black person who comes in will get awful service, because waiters groan when they get a black table. You see, black people have a gene that makes them not tip, so please overpower that gene. If you’re telling a non-black person about something racist that happened to you, make sure you are not bitter. Don’t complain. Be forgiving. If possible, make it funny. Most of all, do not be angry. Black people are not supposed to be angry about racism. Otherwise you get no sympathy. This applies only for white liberals, by the way. Don’t even bother telling a white conservative about anything racist that happened to you. Because the conservative will tell you that YOU are the real racist and your mouth will hang open in confusion.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
No nation has ever been able to transform by chance. Its always a deliberate and conscious process
Fela Durotoye
Don't let people supervise your life, If you know who you are, you shouldn't be living in that prison of dominance, live by your orders, you are your own soldier.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Insights are everything. They play central parts in the actualization of destiny. A dangerous insights becomes a colossal executioner. Latching your fate with noble thoughts spares you a life of self-limitation.
Darmie O-Lujon
If liberty is abused, get ready for an awkward result
Sunday Adelaja
A team goes through stages of birth, childhood, puberty, adolescence, maturity, and aging in its development.
Sunday Adelaja
Whenever they were together they couldn't let sixty of their minutes pass without asking each other what time it was; as if time was a volatile currency that they either possessed or did not possess, when in fact time was more of a fog that rose inexorably over all their words and deeds so that their were either forgotten or misremembered.
Helen Oyeyemi
I've come to think that there's an age beyond which it is impossible to lift a child from the pervading marinade of an original country, pat them down with a paper napkin and then deep-fry them in another country, another language like hot oil scalding the first language away.
Helen Oyeyemi
We plan our lives according to a dream that came to us in our childhood, and we find that life alters our plans. And yet, at the end, from a rare height, we also see that our dream was our fate. It's just that providence had other ideas as to how we would get there. Destiny plans a different route, or turns the dream around, as if it were a riddle, and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn't have expected.
Ben Okri
In one form or the other, the quest for human dignity has proved to be one of the most propulsive elements for wars, civil strife and willing sacrifice. Yet the entitlement to dignity, enshrined among the 'human rights', does not aspire to being the most self-evident, essential need for human survival, such as food, or physical health. Compared to that other candidate for the basic impulse of human existence - self-preservation - it may even be deemed self-indulgent.
Wole Soyinka
For you to exist on earth, downplay on the religious factor.
Sunday Adelaja
Any fool that had once helped you will someday make known to everyone that you were once a needy. No matter how broke you are, don't ever be quick to ask for help, let it be voluntary, and you must also learn to feign repudiation, no matter how valuable the offer.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Time is the only commodity in life that cannot be bought, sold, borrowed, given out as a gift and it cannot be inherited.
Sunday Adelaja
Sow into the gift and talent God has given to you to rip an harvest
Sunday Adelaja
Our life is a gift and a blessing from God
Sunday Adelaja
Discover your gift and talent, then start a process of production with it if you desire to be prosperous
Sunday Adelaja
Begin to increase your gift, talent, potentials, self-development if you want to be prosperous
Sunday Adelaja
Until you begin to sow yourself, ability, gifts, talent into that land God has called you into, prosperity will then be yours
Sunday Adelaja
He created you with your special features because he was aware of your destination
Sunday Adelaja
Only in a state of solitude, when you willingly stay face to face with God, can He help you to open yourself, and show the impurities preventing you from moving forward and help you to identify your unique gift, life mission and destination
Sunday Adelaja
Answer the question “ what am I living for?” and become a master in this field, serve others with your gift, because you were created exactly with this goal
Sunday Adelaja
Go and venture! You should not give up after failures because this gift does not belong only to you
Sunday Adelaja
You are a unique individual with your own special features that you need to carry on your life mission
Sunday Adelaja
To have a mission is to find your own gift
Sunday Adelaja
So, each of us has a special gift and it takes time to discover it
Sunday Adelaja