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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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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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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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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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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O yes, everyone gets lonely some time or other.
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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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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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They had always told me that I wrote like a man.
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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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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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I always wanted to write poetry, even when I was very young.
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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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Ghana is like a lion without a head
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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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