Maybe true travel is not the transportation of the body, but a change of perception, renewing the mind. - Ben Okri

So books should be lived to be read.
And life should be dreamt to be lived.

If your work can surprise you then you have started something worthwhile.

He saw the world in which black people always suffered and he didn’t like it. He saw a world in which human beings suffered so needlessly from Antipodes to Equator, and he didn’t like it either. He saw our people drowning in poverty, in famine, drought, in divisiveness and the blood of war. He saw our people always preyed upon by other powers, manipulated by the Western world, our history and achievements rigged out of existence.