Toyin Falola has given us what is truly rare in modern African writing: a seriously funny, racy, irreverent package of memories, and full of the most wonderful pieces of poetry and ordinary information.
AMA ATA AIDOOIts a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children.
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People are worms, and even the God who created them is immensely bored with their antics.
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No matter what anybody says, we can’t have it all. Not if you are a woman. Not yet.
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Things are working out… towards their dazzling conclusions.
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the best way to sharpen a knife is not to whet one side of it only. And neither can you solve a riddle by considering only one end of it.
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Sometimes a word or an argument will trigger a poem.
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Its a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children.
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It is a matter of some interest, that the only other volume A Mouth Sweeter Than Salt reminds one of is Ake, by Wole Soyinka. What is it about these Yorubas?
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I always wanted to write poetry, even when I was very young.
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I’ve written poems about gifts.
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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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For us Africans, literature must serve a purpose: to expose, embarrass, and fight corruption and authoritarianism.
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Life is inspirational; sometimes it comes from the most unlikely places.
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They had always told me that I wrote like a man.
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O yes, everyone gets lonely some time or other.
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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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