Its a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children.
AMA ATA AIDOOPeople are worms, and even the God who created them is immensely bored with their antics.
More Ama Ata Aidoo Quotes
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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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For us Africans, literature must serve a purpose: to expose, embarrass, and fight corruption and authoritarianism.
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Sometimes a word or an argument will trigger a poem.
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I always wanted to write poetry, even when I was very young.
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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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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’ve written poems about gifts.
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It is understandable why the African artist is utilitarian.
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Life is inspirational; sometimes it comes from the most unlikely places.
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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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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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Ghana is like a lion without a head
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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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