They had always told me that I wrote like a man.
AMA ATA AIDOOAfter 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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No matter what anybody says, we can’t have it all. Not if you are a woman. Not yet.
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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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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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I’ve written poems about gifts.
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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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People are worms, and even the God who created them is immensely bored with their antics.
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Life is inspirational; sometimes it comes from the most unlikely places.
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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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O yes, everyone gets lonely some time or other.
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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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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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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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Ghana is like a lion without a head
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