No matter what anybody says, we can’t have it all. Not if you are a woman. Not yet.
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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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No matter what anybody says, we can’t have it all. Not if you are a woman. Not yet.
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I always wanted to write poetry, even when I was very young.
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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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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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For us Africans, literature must serve a purpose: to expose, embarrass, and fight corruption and authoritarianism.
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Things are working out… towards their dazzling conclusions.
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They had always told me that I wrote like a man.
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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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Its a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children.
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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 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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