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.
AMA ATA AIDOOLife is inspirational; sometimes it comes from the most unlikely places.
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People are worms, and even the God who created them is immensely bored with their antics.
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For us Africans, literature must serve a purpose: to expose, embarrass, and fight corruption and authoritarianism.
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Its a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children.
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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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I’ve written poems about gifts.
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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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No matter what anybody says, we can’t have it all. Not if you are a woman. Not yet.
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Sometimes a word or an argument will trigger a poem.
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Ghana is like a lion without a head
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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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I always wanted to write poetry, even when I was very young.
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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.
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Once in a while I catch myself wondering whether I would have found the courage to write if I had not started to write when I was too young to know what was good for me.
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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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