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Life is inspirational; sometimes it comes from the most unlikely places.

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Its a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children.
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Humans, not places, make memories.
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Once an interesting idea or theme occurs to me then I would want to write a poem about it. The rest, frankly, is not difficult.
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Politicians are easy to attack, but frankly, we are all guilty of not meeting the needs of Africa’s young people properly.
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After all, if we look closer into ourselves, shall we not admit that the warmth from other people comes so sweet to us when it comes, because, we always carry with us the knowledge of the cold loneliness of death?
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I’ve written poems about gifts.
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The very old certainly do not go back on lunch remains but they do bite back at old conversational topics.
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There are powerful forces undermining progress in Africa. But one must never underestimate the power of the people to bring about change.
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Ghana is like a lion without a head
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Love is fine for singing about and love songs are good to listen to, sometimes even to dance to. But when we need food for our stomachs and clothes for our backs, love is nothing. Ah my lady, the last man any woman should think of marrying is the man she loves.
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At the age of 15, a teacher had asked me what I wanted to do for a career, and without knowing why or even how I replied that I wanted to be a poet.
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Life is inspirational; sometimes it comes from the most unlikely places.
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Time by itself means nothing, no matter how fast it moves, unless we give it something to carry for us; something we value. Because it is such a precious vehicle, is time.
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People are worms, and even the God who created them is immensely bored with their antics.
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Soyinka’s Death at Dawn, Auden’s Musée des Beaux Arts, Stevie Smith’s Not Waving but Drowning and Wislawa Szymborska’s Some People come to mind immediately. But there are plenty, plenty more that I enjoy.
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For us Africans, literature must serve a purpose: to expose, embarrass, and fight corruption and authoritarianism.
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