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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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They had always told me that I wrote like a man.
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Always Amn Told Wrote
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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Art Auden Beaux Country Death Enjoy Immediately Mind People Person Plenty Some
Humans, not places, make memories.
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Human Memorize Place
I always wanted to write poetry, even when I was very young.
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Always Poetry Very Want When Write Young
O yes, everyone gets lonely some time or other.
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Everyone Lonely Other Some Time
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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Back Cloth Dance Food Good Love Man Marry Need Sing Sometimes Stomach
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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Chance Force never Powerful Progress Underestimate
Sometimes a word or an argument will trigger a poem.
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Argument Poem Sometimes Trigger Word
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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Carry Mean Mov Nothing Precious Something Time Unless Value Vehicle
People are worms, and even the God who created them is immensely bored with their antics.
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Antics Create Even God Immensely People Worm
Things are working out… towards their dazzling conclusions.
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Conclusion Cut Dazzling Toward Work
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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Attack Country Easy Guilt Meet People Politician Property Young
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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Admit Closer Come Death Knowledge Loneliness Ourselves People Warmth
No matter what anybody says, we can’t have it all. Not if you are a woman. Not yet.
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All Anyone Matter No Say Woman
Life is inspirational; sometimes it comes from the most unlikely places.
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Come Inspirational Life Must Place Sometimes Unlike
It is understandable why the African artist is utilitarian.
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Artist Country Understandable

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