No matter what anybody says, we can’t have it all. Not if you are a woman. Not yet.
AMA ATA AIDOOThey had always told me that I wrote like a man.
More Ama Ata Aidoo Quotes
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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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I’ve written poems about gifts.
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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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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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O yes, everyone gets lonely some time or other.
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People are worms, and even the God who created them is immensely bored with their antics.
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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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Things are working out… towards their dazzling conclusions.
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Its a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children.
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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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Life is inspirational; sometimes it comes from the most unlikely places.
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Humans, not places, make memories.
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Sometimes a word or an argument will trigger a poem.
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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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Ghana is like a lion without a head
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