Everyday life inspires me, the situations that we all find ourselves in at one time or another.

If you can't change it.. change the way you think about it

Life is too short to leave your walls bare or colorless. Unless you like bare and colorless then it is fine.

Open your heart - open it wide; someone is standing outside.

There's no better friend than a sister.

The golden opportunity you are seeking is within yourself.

So many people com einto our lives and then leave the way they came. But there are those precious few who touch our hearts so deeply we will never be the same.

Look to the beauty of this day, miracles are all around you.

If you pray for rain, be prepared to deal with some mud.

Heal the past, live the present, dream the future.

Bloom where you are planted!

Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively.

Don't touch me, I'm diabetic.

God's the seamstress that tailor-fitted my pain.

Municipal laws are a supply to the wisdom of each individual; and, at the same time, by restraining the natural liberty of men, make private interest submit to the interest of the public.

I love the feeling of being on the hunt - the feeling that the story is refusing to be solved in some lesser way and is insisting that you see it on its highest terms.

Once in a while I get inspired and finish my act with the hillbilly hoedown.

We can reproduce within our own minds the way that the world is put together for other people. This is the extraordinary privilege and adventure of anthropology.

In the age of mediocrity and clones, John Stowell's uniqueness and originality are a breath of fresh air. I love playing with him.

It's up to history to judge.

We must overcome...all forms of racism. The problem of intolerance should be dealt with as a whole: every time a minority is persecuted and marginalized...the good of the whole society is in danger.