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They had always told me that I wrote like a man.

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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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Carry Mean Mov Nothing Precious Something Time Unless Value Vehicle
Sometimes a word or an argument will trigger a poem.
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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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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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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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For us Africans, literature must serve a purpose: to expose, embarrass, and fight corruption and authoritarianism.
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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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It is understandable why the African artist is utilitarian.
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Its a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children.
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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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Humans, not places, make memories.
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Human Memorize Place
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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Things are working out… towards their dazzling conclusions.
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O yes, everyone gets lonely some time or other.
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I’ve written poems about gifts.
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