I always wanted to write poetry, even when I was very young.
AMA ATA AIDOOThings are working out… towards their dazzling conclusions.
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I’ve written poems about gifts.
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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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People are worms, and even the God who created them is immensely bored with their antics.
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Things are working out… towards their dazzling conclusions.
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Humans, not places, make memories.
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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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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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Life is inspirational; sometimes it comes from the most unlikely places.
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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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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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O yes, everyone gets lonely some time or other.
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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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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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