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O yes, everyone gets lonely some time or other.
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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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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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Sometimes a word or an argument will trigger a poem.
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It is understandable why the African artist is utilitarian.
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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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Its a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children.
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Humans, not places, make memories.
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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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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 always wanted to write poetry, even when I was very young.
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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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Things are working out… towards their dazzling conclusions.
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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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For us Africans, literature must serve a purpose: to expose, embarrass, and fight corruption and authoritarianism.
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